I am using colima instead of docker destop, The following error i am getting while running the

pulumi up

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     Type                         Name              Plan     Info
     pulumi:pulumi:Stack          my-first-app-dev
     └─ docker:index:RemoteImage  backend-image              1 error


Diagnostics:
  docker:index:RemoteImage (backend-image):
    error: 1 error occurred:
    	* Error pinging Docker server: Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at unix:///var/run/docker.sock. Is the docker daemon running?

While running

docker context ls

, I am getting the following output

NAME       DESCRIPTION                               DOCKER ENDPOINT                                   KUBERNETES ENDPOINT   ORCHESTRATOR
colima *   colima                                    unix:///Users/shivi/.colima/default/docker.sock
default    Current DOCKER_HOST based configuration   unix:///var/run/docker.sock                                             swarm

What are the possible solutions to fix this issue? Thanks in advance

have you set the

DOCKER_HOST

variable?

Thanks @billowy-army-68599 for helping me out. Basically I missed the

DOCKER_HOST

. A silly mistake.