serverless-offline/src/utils/checkDockerDaemon.js

Emulate AWS λ and API Gateway locally when developing your Serverless project

import { execa } from "execa"

export default async function checkDockerDaemon() {
  let dockerServerOS

  try {
    ;({ stdout: dockerServerOS } = await execa("docker", [
      "version",
      "--format",
      "{{.Server.Os}}",
    ]))
  } catch {
    throw new Error("The docker daemon is not running.")
  }

  if (dockerServerOS !== "linux") {
    throw new Error("Please switch docker daemon to linux mode.")
  }
}