Error while install Docker template

error log

Error: Error pinging Docker server: Got permission denied while trying to connect to the Docker daemon socket at unix:///var/run/docker.sock: Get "http://%2Fvar%2Frun%2Fdocker.sock/_ping": dial unix /var/run/docker.sock: connect: permission denied
on main.tf line 22, in provider "docker":
  22: provider "docker" {

Error: Error pinging Docker server: Got permission denied while trying to connect to the Docker daemon socket at unix:///var/run/docker.sock: Get "http://%2Fvar%2Frun%2Fdocker.sock/_ping": dial unix /var/run/docker.sock: connect: permission denied
on main.tf line 22, in provider "docker":
  22: provider "docker" {

i install coder with docker comose https://github.com/coder/coder/blob/main/docker-compose.yaml

GitHub

coder/docker-compose.yaml at main · coder/coder

Provision remote development environments via Terraform - coder/coder

56 Replies

Codercord•3w ago

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Category

Help needed

Product

Coder (v2)

Platform

macOS

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Please post any relevant logs/error messages.

AsherOP•3w ago

hi can anyone help me please

Danielle•3w ago

    # If the coder user does not have write permissions on
    # the docker socket, you can uncomment the following
    # lines and set the group ID to one that has write
    # permissions on the docker socket.
    #group_add:
    #  - "998" # docker group on host

    # If the coder user does not have write permissions on
    # the docker socket, you can uncomment the following
    # lines and set the group ID to one that has write
    # permissions on the docker socket.
    #group_add:
    #  - "998" # docker group on host

Did you follow the instructions at this part of the docker-compose file?

AsherOP•3w ago

oh sorry no let me do it now after i want ran getent group docker it didn't shows anything

AsherOP•3w ago

do i have to create one?

Atif•3w ago

try with sudo

AsherOP•3w ago

umm command not found

Atif•3w ago

are you running this on the same system where docker compsoe is installed and you are running Coder?

AsherOP•3w ago

yes im running on same machine same system with docker compose

AsherOP•3w ago

and coder is running healthy

Danielle•2w ago

I take it you're running on a Mac? If so, what tool are you using to run Docker containers

Phorcys•2w ago

(@Asher)

AsherOP•2w ago

yea im running on mac mini, use docker desktop to run the docker container after i changed 998 to 0 it worked but i have another question is how can in stall node.js in to developer env? do i install it on the template or i have do it in every workspaces? @Phorcys i have checked your docs but all was changed into private https://coder.com/blog/configuring-node-js-workspaces-in-coder

Phorcys•2w ago

that is pretty bad, please don't 0 is root this is for v1, which is outdated nice catch

AsherOP•2w ago

so what should i do? i can't found the group id for docker

Phorcys•2w ago

would you be able to run stat /var/run/docker.sock?

AsherOP•2w ago

team@teams-Mac-mini ~ % stat /var/run/docker.sock
16777232 21262568 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root daemon 0 35 "Mar 21 09:47:57 2025" "Mar 21 09:47:57 2025" "Mar 21 09:47:57 2025" "Mar 21 09:47:57 2025" 4096 0 0 /var/run/docker.sock

team@teams-Mac-mini ~ % stat /var/run/docker.sock
16777232 21262568 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root daemon 0 35 "Mar 21 09:47:57 2025" "Mar 21 09:47:57 2025" "Mar 21 09:47:57 2025" "Mar 21 09:47:57 2025" 4096 0 0 /var/run/docker.sock

Phorcys•2w ago

yeah i'm not sure you have a choice for this you should use the docker socket via tcp or ssh instead of using a file mount the issue with using the file-based approach on macOS is that you have to give the container access, and to do so the container user has to be part of the docker group, in your case it would be the daemon group, but AFAIK it's a generic group and isn't used only by Docker basically, using the file approach in this case creates a security hole or, run Coder on something that's either a. not macOS or b. not a container, if you run Coder standalone and give it access to Docker it should be fine

AsherOP•2w ago

because we only have mac so now we only have one option which is b is there are installation guide for us?

Phorcys•2w ago

you could use a Linux VM otherwise, but it's not that great

AsherOP•2w ago

the performance will not be great

Phorcys•2w ago

https://coder.com/docs/install/cli

Coder CLI | Coder Docs

Install the standalone binary

AsherOP•2w ago

thanks

Phorcys•2w ago

make sure to install brew first i don't think we have a daemon for macOS though, so you might have to find a way to get coder server to run at startup

AsherOP•2w ago

let me first then i will let you know my progress thanks you for your help ok now i run coder server and it worked can i start the coder server in the background? and how can i install nvm in default? @Phorcys

AsherOP•2w ago

is these files must be here in default can i remove them?

AsherOP•2w ago

and i have another question is right now im developing a angular web app and open the port on 4200

AsherOP•2w ago

and i go to the website and i see this how can i display my website on this page?

AsherOP•2w ago

and im sure the my webapp is opened

AsherOP•2w ago

hello, can anyone help me please hello? @Phorcys

Phorcys•2w ago

hey @Asher, sorry for the delay!

AsherOP•2w ago

🙏

Phorcys•2w ago

you can, by setting up a daemon

Phorcys•2w ago

it seems on macOS you can use launchd

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Run command on startup / login (Mac OS X)

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Phorcys•2w ago

you can either edit the coder_agent's startup_script to install nvm or build your own Docker image with nvm preinstalled you shouldn't, these are your user's files, they store data for your profile this is a linux thing though, not specific to coder basically just treat them like system files what URL are you accessing? the one in the screenshot or something else? you should use the port forwarding feature for this, as you cannot access the machine's localhost directly, but you'll want to set up a wildcard domain for this

AsherOP•2w ago

when i clicked on the localhost:4200 it redirected me to this page

AsherOP•2w ago

but i didn't show my webpage and i have tried using coder extension on vs code connected via ssh

AsherOP•2w ago

and it can't access the page and loaded 1 mins still has no response

AsherOP•2w ago

tried port fowarding but still an't access @Atif sorry for the ping do you know how the port foward works? am i did anything wrong?

Atif•2w ago

I have a few suggestions. Please check Coder docs for enabling wildcard access URL. It is needed for web port forwarding For docker I would suggest using orbstack or Colima and not the docker desktop That would also solve the isse where docker socker is owneyby root (0)

AsherOP•2w ago

right now im not using host coder on docker desktop. i installed coder via

curl -L https://coder.com/install.sh | sh

curl -L https://coder.com/install.sh | sh

Atif•2w ago

This is fine I am talking about installing docker to provision workspaces

AsherOP•2w ago

oo ok can i use cloudflare tunnel for enabling wildcard access url?

Atif•2w ago

You can try. I haven't done that myself. It's better to use a domain you own and set up coder behind a reverse proxy. We have docs for that. Caddy would be the easiest to follow

AsherOP•2w ago

ok thank you it will try to follow the docs

AsherOP•2w ago

@Atif it doesn't seems to be worked

Atif•6d ago

its an http domian try removing thes Is the service running on this port is on http or https?

AsherOP•5d ago

im using cloudflare tunnel to forward to request to port http://localhost:3000 and coder is running on port 3000 locally

Phorcys•3d ago

you should set up your domain as follows : coder.hkdispenser.com for the instance *.coder.hkdispenser.com for the wildcard subdomain also, don't select https when forwarding the port

AsherOP•13h ago

yes i did that

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