Error running make clusters on Apple M1 Pro macOS: Cannot connect to the Docker daemon

[kahirokunn]

What happened:
I attempted to run make clusters after cloning the submariner-operator repository, but encountered errors indicating that the Docker daemon could not be connected to.

Specifically, I received the following error messages:

Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at unix:///Users/user-name/.docker/run/docker.sock. Is the docker daemon running?
docker: Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at unix:///Users/user-name/.docker/run/docker.sock. Is the docker daemon running?

What you expected to happen:
I expected the make clusters command to successfully create the clusters without any errors.

How to reproduce it (as minimally and precisely as possible):

1. Clone the submariner-operator repository:

   git clone https://github.com/submariner-io/submariner-operator
   cd submariner-operator
   

2. Run make clusters:

   make clusters
   

Anything else we need to know?:

• During the build process, there were warnings about platform mismatch:

  WARNING: The requested image's platform (linux/amd64) does not match the detected host platform (linux/arm64/v8) and no specific platform was requested
  

• My environment is an Apple M1 Pro running macOS Sequoia Version 15.2 (24C101).

• Docker is installed and running on my machine.

Environment:

• Diagnose information (use subctl diagnose all): N/A (could not proceed to this step)
• Gather information (use subctl gather): N/A
• Cloud provider or hardware configuration: Apple M1 Pro
• Install tools: Docker Desktop for Mac (latest version compatible with Apple Silicon)
• Others: N/A

[maayanf24]

Can you try run make clusters using=ovn ?

[skitt]

Building on macOS isn’t supported currently — you’ll need to use a Linux VM. In particular, the base image used for the builds is only available on Linux on amd64 (it should also be available on arm64 but apparently isn’t).