Uninstall the currenct docker desktop

# !/bin/bash

# If you need to run with sudo then uncomment the following four lines.

# if [ "${USER}" != "root" ]; then
#     echo "$0 must be run as root!"
#     exit 2
# fi

while true; do
  read -p "Remove all Docker Machine VMs? (Y/N): " yn
  case $yn in
    [Yy]* ) docker-machine rm -f $(docker-machine ls -q); break;;
    [Nn]* ) break;;
    * ) echo "Please answer yes or no."; exit 1;;
  esac
done

echo "Removing Applications..."
rm -rf /Applications/Docker.app

echo "Removing docker binaries..."
rm -f /usr/local/bin/docker
rm -f /usr/local/bin/docker-machine
rm -r /usr/local/bin/docker-machine-driver*
rm -f /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

echo "Removing boot2docker.iso"
rm -rf /usr/local/share/boot2docker

echo "Forget packages"
pkgutil --forget io.docker.pkg.docker
pkgutil --forget io.docker.pkg.dockercompose
pkgutil --forget io.docker.pkg.dockermachine
pkgutil --forget io.boot2dockeriso.pkg.boot2dockeriso

echo "All Done!"

Install the colima

brew install colima
brew services start colima

Install docker, docker compose plugin, credentials plugin

brew install docker docker-compose docker-credential-helper

Update the docker config file to locate the compose and other plugins. Add the following code blocks to ~/.docker/config.json

The following path might not same as me. So, you need to findout your path. Basically they lives under /usr/local/lib/docker/cli-plugins

"cliPluginsExtraDirs": [
     "/opt/homebrew/lib/docker/cli-plugins"
 ]

Update the credsStore on ~/.docker/config.json

"credsStore": "osxkeychain"

~/.docker/config.json should look like following

{
    "auths": {},
    "credsStore": "osxkeychain",
    "currentContext": "colima",
    "cliPluginsExtraDirs": [
        "/opt/homebrew/lib/docker/cli-plugins"
    ],
    "plugins": {
        "-x-cli-hints": {
            "enabled": "true"
        },
        "debug": {
            "hooks": "exec"
        },
        "scout": {
            "hooks": "pull,buildx build"
        }
    },
    "features": {
        "hooks": "true"
    }
}

Start the colima to start the docker

colima start

Note: If you need to alter the config then, colima start --edit

Run portainer

If you want to see the logs from a better UI then, I recommend Portainer. Run the below command to install

docker run -d -p 9444:9000 -p 9443:9443 --name portainer --restart=always -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock -v portainer_data:/data portainer/portainer-ce:latest

Access from http://localhost:9444 (opens new window)

• Resources:
  • https://github.com/abiosoft/colima (opens new window) (MIT license)