Docker not running on Ubuntu WSL - Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at unix:///var/run/docker.sock. Is the docker daemon running?

Question

I am running WSL 2 (Ubuntu) on a Windows 10 machine. I installed Docker on my Ubuntu using the official Docker guide (https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/ubuntu/#install-usin

Answer 1

Go into PowerShell and type: docker context ls

Output:

NAME                DESCRIPTION                               DOCKER ENDPOINT                  KUBERNETES ENDPOINT   ORCHESTRATOR
default *           Current DOCKER_HOST based configuration   npipe:////./pipe/docker_engine                         swarm

Go back into your wsl/ubuntu setup and type export DOCKER_HOST=unix:///var/run/docker.sock