Docker Port 2375

Restart the docker service Restart-Service Docker. Make port docker's TLS ports 2375 and 2376 available by creating an NSG rule allowing inbound traffic. Note that for secure connections you only need to allow 2376. The portal should show an NSG configuration like this: Allow inbound connections through the Windows Firewall. Checking the open ports shows that the port 2375 is taken by docker desktop service. Is this warning a fake?-) After a clean install of 3.5.1 and if 'expose daemon.' Was not set before update: if the setting ('expose daemon.' ) is set for the first time, no warning appears.

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By default, Docker runs through a non-networked UNIX socket. It can alsooptionally communicate using SSH or a TLS (HTTPS) socket.

Use SSH to protect the Docker daemon socket

Note

The given USERNAME must have permissions to access the docker socket on theremote machine. Refer to manage Docker as a non-root userto learn how to give a non-root user access to the docker socket.

The following example creates a docker contextto connect with a remote dockerd daemon on host1.example.com using SSH, andas the docker-user user on the remote machine:

After creating the context, use docker context use to switch the docker CLIto use it, and to connect to the remote engine:

Use the default context to switch back to the default (local) daemon:

Alternatively, use the DOCKER_HOST environment variable to temporarily switchthe docker CLI to connect to the remote host using SSH. This does not requirecreating a context, and can be useful to create an ad-hoc connection with a differentengine:

SSH Tips

For the best user experience with SSH, configure ~/.ssh/config as follows to allowreusing a SSH connection for multiple invocations of the docker CLI:

Use TLS (HTTPS) to protect the Docker daemon socket

If you need Docker to be reachable through HTTP rather than SSH in a safe manner,you can enable TLS (HTTPS) by specifying the tlsverify flag and pointing Docker’stlscacert flag to a trusted CA certificate.

In the daemon mode, it only allows connections from clientsauthenticated by a certificate signed by that CA. In the client mode,it only connects to servers with a certificate signed by that CA.

Advanced topic

Using TLS and managing a CA is an advanced topic. Please familiarize yourselfwith OpenSSL, x509, and TLS before using it in production.

Create a CA, server and client keys with OpenSSL

Note: Replace all instances of $HOST in the following example with theDNS name of your Docker daemon’s host.

First, on the Docker daemon’s host machine, generate CA private and public keys:

Now that you have a CA, you can create a server key and certificatesigning request (CSR). Make sure that “Common Name” matches the hostname you useto connect to Docker:

Note: Replace all instances of $HOST in the following example with theDNS name of your Docker daemon’s host.

Next, we’re going to sign the public key with our CA:

Since TLS connections can be made through IP address as well as DNS name, the IP addressesneed to be specified when creating the certificate. For example, to allow connectionsusing 10.10.10.20 and 127.0.0.1:

Set the Docker daemon key’s extended usage attributes to be used only forserver authentication:

Now, generate the signed certificate:

Authorization plugins offer morefine-grained control to supplement authentication from mutual TLS. In additionto other information described in the above document, authorization pluginsrunning on a Docker daemon receive the certificate information for connectingDocker clients.

For client authentication, create a client key and certificate signingrequest:

Note: For simplicity of the next couple of steps, you may perform thisstep on the Docker daemon’s host machine as well.

To make the key suitable for client authentication, create a new extensionsconfig file:

Now, generate the signed certificate:

After generating cert.pem and server-cert.pem you can safely remove thetwo certificate signing requests and extensions config files:

With a default umask of 022, your secret keys are world-readable andwritable for you and your group.

To protect your keys from accidental damage, remove theirwrite permissions. To make them only readable by you, change file modes as follows:

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Certificates can be world-readable, but you might want to remove write access toprevent accidental damage:

Now you can make the Docker daemon only accept connections from clientsproviding a certificate trusted by your CA:

To connect to Docker and validate its certificate, provide your client keys,certificates and trusted CA:

Run it on the client machine

This step should be run on your Docker client machine. As such, youneed to copy your CA certificate, your server certificate, and your clientcertificate to that machine.

Note: Replace all instances of $HOST in the following example with theDNS name of your Docker daemon’s host.

Note:Docker over TLS should run on TCP port 2376.

Warning:As shown in the example above, you don’t need to run the docker clientwith sudo or the docker group when you use certificate authentication.That means anyone with the keys can give any instructions to your Dockerdaemon, giving them root access to the machine hosting the daemon. Guardthese keys as you would a root password!

Secure by default

If you want to secure your Docker client connections by default, you can movethe files to the .docker directory in your home directory --- and set theDOCKER_HOST and DOCKER_TLS_VERIFY variables as well (instead of passing-H=tcp://$HOST:2376 and --tlsverify on every call).

Docker now connects securely by default:

Other modes

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If you don’t want to have complete two-way authentication, you can runDocker in various other modes by mixing the flags.

Daemon modes

• tlsverify, tlscacert, tlscert, tlskey set: Authenticate clients
• tls, tlscert, tlskey: Do not authenticate clients

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Client modes

• tls: Authenticate server based on public/default CA pool
• tlsverify, tlscacert: Authenticate server based on given CA
• tls, tlscert, tlskey: Authenticate with client certificate, do notauthenticate server based on given CA
• tlsverify, tlscacert, tlscert, tlskey: Authenticate with clientcertificate and authenticate server based on given CA

If found, the client sends its client certificate, so you just needto drop your keys into ~/.docker/{ca,cert,key}.pem. Alternatively,if you want to store your keys in another location, you can specify thatlocation using the environment variable DOCKER_CERT_PATH.

Connecting to the secure Docker port using curl

To use curl to make test API requests, you need to use three extra command lineflags:

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