Agentic GraphQL: MCP for the Enterprise tutorial, Apollo Runtime container error

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docker run command gives an error:

docker: error during connect: Head “http://%2F%2F.%2Fpipe%2FdockerDesktopLinuxEngine/_ping”: open //./pipe/dockerDesktopLinuxEngine: The system cannot find the file specified.

I am running the command in Windows 11.

The command was:

docker run
–env APOLLO_GRAPH_REF=
–env APOLLO_KEY=
–env MCP_ENABLE=1
–env MCP_UPLINK=1
–rm -p 4000:4000 -p 5000:5000

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Hey @Denson_Dube! Unfortunately I’m not familiar with running Docker in a Windows environment. Are you able to run Docker for other applications? I’m also seeing from a quick search that this error might be because Docker Desktop isn’t running, maybe you need to start it up first?

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Docker runs on an Ubuntu Linux windows extention (wsl). There is something wrong with my wsl installation. I’ll re-install wsl. That should fix it.

Thanks a lot Michelle.

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Hi Michelle,

The error I am now getting is the following:

2025-08-05T20:09:53.081920Z INFO Apollo MCP Server v0.6.1 // (c) Apollo Graph, Inc. // Licensed under MIT
2025-08-05T20:09:53.081974Z WARN No operations specified, falling back to the default collection in
2025-08-05T20:09:57.868158Z INFO Starting MCP server in stdio mode
2025-08-05T20:09:57.869160Z ERROR serving error: ConnectionClosed(“initialized request”)
Error: Failed to initialize MCP server

Caused by:
connection closed: initialized request

It’s suppossed to default to http stream, but its starting in stdio and failing. My server is running at port 4001. ( refers to my APOLLO-GRAPH-REF)