Ductus.FluentDocker.Common.FluentDockerException : Failed to find docker client binary - please add it to your path

[enrico23]

I am using the Fluent Docker library to run Redis and SQL Server as part of the startup of my integration tests locally on Windows machines.

This approach worked fine until I installed the Docker Engine as part of the Docker Desktop installation.

My requirements have changed: I can no longer use Docker Desktop for license reasons.

My first approach was to use some Docker alternatives like Rancher Desktop, but unfortunately, this has several limitations: Rancher Desktop needs to run as an Administrator on Windows to fully support networking between containers; every client interacting with the Docker engine installed with Rancher needs to run with high privileges.

I decided not to use Rancher Desktop and manually install the Docker Engine and the Docker Compose service on Windows WSL2. I followed the instructions provided by Docker at https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/ubuntu/?ref=paulsblog.dev, but I have some issues now with the Fluent Docker library when it comes to getting the list of available hosts.

The class "Ductus.FluentDocker.Services.Hosts" provides a convenient method "Discover" which should return a collection of IHostedServices.
When I run this method now on my new local environment, I get the following exception: "Ductus.FluentDocker.Common.FluentDockerException : Failed to find docker client binary - please add it to your path".

Has anyone attempted something similar before?