DevKinsta continually saying Docker is not installed after installing Docker 4.37.2

DevKinsta Application Support
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I updated Docker to 4.37.2 due to the issue with the false positive malware issue with Docker on Mac, but now DevKinsta seems unable to recognise that Docker is installed. I have tried all previous solutions found here but nothing has worked, it almost seems like DevKinsta is getting stuck.

And yes I have uninstalled both Docker and DevKinsta and reinstalled Docker after DevKinsta (as if it were a fresh install) with no luck.

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Hello Tom :wave: Welcome to the Kinsta community!

I’m sorry to hear that you’re experiencing issues. I’ve updated docker on my Mac but I can’t replicate the issue.

It’s possible something got stuck during the update. Can you try stopping all containers in Docker pertaining to DevKinsta (so only those with names starting with devkinsta_) and deleting them? Once you delete them, quit DevKinsta and start it again, it should recreate the containers and let me know if it starts.

If it doesn’t help, please tell me:

Kind regards

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Hey Vladimir,

It doesn’t even recognize Docker as installed, let alone being able to detect containers.

Screenshot 2025-01-21 at 11.10.32
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Retry does nothing at all, and download just takes me to the download page for docker.

I’m using

  • MacOS 15.2
  • DevKinsta 2.13.4 (2.13.4.8833)

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Hi @SeenNotHurd Thank you for providing the main.log, It is very helpful.

I have reviewed it and saw this error:
[2025-01-21 11:07:38.343] [error] Error - DK0003: DOCKER_INSTALL_COMMON_ERROR: Docker isn’t installed

Can you please try to run the following command via terminal when both DevKinsta and Docker are entirely closed?

sudo ln -s “$HOME/.docker/run/docker.sock” /var/run/docker.sock

If done, please reboot your computer and try to reload DevKinsta and see if it will be the same. If it is, please open the terminal program of your Mac and run the following commands below. Send us the results so that we can double check further.

  1. docker --version
  2. docker version
  3. which docker
  4. docker context ls

Please also try the following:

Open Docker then go to Settings > advanced. Under Choose how to confirgure the installation Dcoer’s CLI Tools, please tick the tickbox for “Allow the default Docker socket to be used”

Restart Docker and DevKinsta once again. Let us know how it goes. We will wait for your update. Thank you.

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Hey guys

I have exact same issue. It happened after I tested Orbstack and then removed it.
I removed DevKinsta and Docker Desktop via AppCleaner, did reboots, reinstalls, everything from scratch.

I also tried all the steps above and didn’t help.

Mac OS 15.5 (24F74)
Latest DevKinsta Version 2.13.4 (2.13.4.8833)

Edit: Fixed it with help of Grok AI, don’t exactly know what did the trickt, but I just followed the steps, factory reset Docker Desktop and reinstalled DevKinsta again

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