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I am running .NET Aspire 9.3 inside Visual Studio 2022 v2 on Windows 11 with WSL (Ubuntu) and Docker installed. However, Aspire defaults to using Docker Desktop, and I want it to use WSL's Docker instance instead.

My Setup:

  • Windows 10 with WSL 2
  • Ubuntu (WSL) with Docker installed
  • Visual Studio 2022 v2
  • .NET Aspire 9.3
  • Docker Desktop also installed (but I want to use WSL's Docker)

Issue:

When I run my Aspire project in Visual Studio, I get the warning:

warn: Aspire.Hosting.Dcp.DcpHost[0]
      Container runtime 'docker' could not be found.

I suspect Aspire is looking for Docker in Windows rather than WSL's Ubuntu instance.

What I've Tried:

Disabled Docker Desktop to force WSL usage. Aspire still fails to detect Docker.

Question:

How can I configure .NET Aspire to use Docker inside WSL (Ubuntu) instead of Docker Desktop when running within Visual Studio?

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  • Can you run other projects in WSL Docker ? Another suggestion would be to make sure that your environment variable is set DOTNET_ASPIRE_CONTAINER_RUNTIME -> docker Commented Sep 11 at 12:15
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