Disclaimer: I'm the author of teracy-dev where we bring Docker to Vagrant = love. Docker works great on Linux, however, it’s very challenging to make it work universal and consistent on Mac and Windows. There are lots of efforts to solve this problem, from Docker themselves and from Docker community, too. However, we haven’t achieved that stage yet (until teracy-dev). These are some of the problems that Docker community has to deal with on Mac and Windows:. No consistent universal development environment and workflow on Linux, Windows, Mac.
Feb 23, 2017 - vs Raft (All containers). First ensure you have the system dependencies. OS X Yosemite (10.10) or higher; Homebrew Docker for Mac Virtualbox. Brew tap codekitchen/dinghy brew install dinghy dinghy create. In the past year alone, the Docker community has created 100,000+ images and over 300+ million images have been pulled from Docker Hub to date. Over 20 million of these pulls came from the 70+ Official Images that Docker develops in conjunction with upstream partners, like Oracle, CentOS, and NGINX.
This is a very important factor for team collaboration so that anyone from any OS platforms could collaborate and help each other with no differences in the development environment. Mounted volumes on VirtualBox use vboxsf, which is extremely slow. This is true for Boot2Docker and Vagrant default file sync mechanism on Virtualbox. Native Docker applications offered by Docker:. Slow on Mac:. Only recent latest versions of Window 10 (“Build 10586 or later”) are supported. Slow on Windows:.
File watching is broken on VirtualBox since vboxsf does not trigger the inotify file watching mechanism. There are a lot of Docker community projects trying to solve those problems:. others However, those existing projects do not really resolve all the problems or do not reflect our vision for a productive development platform. That is the reason why we created teracy-dev. We’ve been using and loving it for more than 3 years and counting. Teracy-dev reflects our vision for a truly universal productive development platform that anyone can use to develop software easily.
It’s very easy to customize any OS that you can use for your VM. It brings development and production environment closer and closer. It is very important for a distributed team like us to work with everyone from different teams all over the world on different projects with different stacks and teracy-dev helps us a lot. Let’s have some comparisons between teracy-dev and other solutions: In summary, teracy-dev brings Docker closer to Vagrant = love. You could read more in details:.
What’s Docker for Mac & for Windows? In March this year, Docker finally announced and released a native support for Mac and Windows. Docker started with a closed beta, only providing access to a couple of early adopters.
Since June 20th, you can get Docker for Mac & Windows in public beta. Therefore you can download Docker for Mac & Windows for free. Though, don’t forget it’s still beta.
And according to the official documentation Docker for Windows and Docker for Mac share some common code base, however it seems that Docker for Windows still is a bit more beta. Docker for Mac is a game changer. Docker for Mac is the latest offering for Mac which runs as a native OS X application and uses xhyve to virtualize the Docker Engine environment and Linux kernel-specific features. Why is this so great?
Because Docker for Mac allows you to easily run Docker as a native app on your Mac. Or as Noah Zoshke: Docker for Mac is a game changer. While you might have encountered a couple of problems and errors with your Docker Toolbox, it seems pretty promising. And most importantly: No more VirtualBox! You don’t need docker-machine to run Docker for Mac.
Docker for Mac vs Docker Toolbox If you’ve already been using Docker via the Docker Toolbox, you might wonder how the native Docker for Mac influences your existing projects. Before installing Docker for Mac, I’d recommend checking out of Docker for Mac vs Docker Toolbox. Basically, you can use Docker for Mac and Docker Toolbox together on the same machine.
Docker’s official documentation recommends making sure that all Docker environment variables are unset (see detailed installation process below). Installing Docker for Mac So, first things first. In order to get started, you need to download Docker for Mac:.
Docker for Mac Be aware, that it still is in public beta, and Docker claims that some functionalities might change before a public release. After you’ve downloaded the file, you’ll see that it’s the standard installation process, similar to a lot of other OS X applications. You simply execute the.dmg file and you’ll drag the Docker app in your applications folder. Docker might ask you for some root permissions to install some things. After you’re done with the installation process, a little helper will appear in the OS X bar. You’re good to go now.
Docker is up and running. If you’re now opening up your terminal (and you’ve been using Docker Toolbox before) you might run into the same problem as I did.
If you run docker-compose up you might experience this conflict with your Docker Toolbox (see screenshot below). It looked like Docker for Mac had some problems, due to my installed Docker toolbox. In a first step you need to check whether Toolbox DOCKER environment variables are set.
$ env grep DOCKER If this command returns no output, you are ready to use Docker. If it returns an output (as shown in my screenshot above), you need to unset the DOCKER environment variables. You can do that by running the following command: unset DOCKERTLSVERIFY unset DOCKERCERTPATH unset DOCKERMACHINENAME unset DOCKERHOST As you can see in the screenshot above, unsetting the variables enabled me to start building Hugo. Running containers on the local host network Docker for Mac also includes a DNS server for containers. And if you’re using Docker in a corporate environment with a restrictive VPN, the good news is that Docker for Mac works there too.
Uninstalling old Docker files and apps I’ve been using the Docker Toolbox for more than a year now. And in this time I collected quite a lot of files and stuff, which are now replaced by Docker for Mac. So, I’ve been pretty excited to uninstall the following files and apps:.
Docker Toolbox (Docker Machine, Docker Quickstart Terminal, Kitematic). VirtualBox (with it’s Docker files). The whole folder.docker (with more than 4.8 GB of size). The folder.boot2docker Summary We have been using the Docker Toolbox for the last 12 months or so and are now pretty excited about Docker for Mac! The installation was pretty smoothly and we’ve seen a lot of advantages of using Docker for Mac compared to Docker Toolbox. However, there might appear some glitches as Docker for Mac is in beta. Here’s a quick summary with the best benefits of using Docker for Mac:.
Pretty smooth and simple installation process. No more VirtualBox!.
No problems with virtual machines, filesystems or other bugs you might have encountered with the Docker Toolbox. Fast mount volumes of host file system (file change detection now also works inside docker machines!).
So far Docker on Mac behaves like Docker on Linux (which means NO more custom versions of scripts for Mac!). If you’ve been using the Docker Toolbox, you can uninstall a lot of stuff!.
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