I recently watched a YouTube video where one of the GNS3 creators was talking about GNS3 and how it runs. This convinced me to consider moving my GNS3 development work to the Linux world. I had done this years ago for the hands on training classes but my own development environment has been Windows based. To be fair, I have had few problems – mostly just GNS3 growing pains, but long ago learned that Linux was much more reliable. This video made it clear that GNS3 in Linux was superior, and it further meant I was going to be less dependent on a GNS3 VM (which is Linux based) when using Windows and/or a MAC.
So the first thing I wanted to do on my new native Linux/GNS3 development environment was get Ansible and other Docker based appliances up and running.
I hit a wall!
The appliances appeared to install correctly, but I kept getting an ugly error:
Error while creating node: Docker has returned an error: Cannot connect to host docker:80 ssl:False [No such file or directory]
Ouch!
The problem was, I did not have Docker installed. So here are the steps:
First – make sure you have curl installed. If you do not have curl installed then install curl with:
sudo apt-get install curl
Next, install docker with the following command:
curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com/ | sh
After installing Docker you need to add your user name in the docker group with the following command (put your user name in place of ‘username’ below):
$ sudo usermod -aG docker username
Verify if the docker service is started with following command:
$ service docker status
If docker is not started then start with following command:
$ sudo service docker start
Now, close GNS3, and reboot your machine.
You will find all works fine.
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