One of the most compelling reasons to run Docker on your local machine is the speed at which you can deploy and build lab environments. As a huge fan of Vagrant, I love the ability to spin up environments such as the sandbox labs I’ve been using for a long time with Vagrant and VirtualBox.
Switching to Docker as an option for many of my quick labs has also meant the same ability to run as an abstraction on top of my laptop so that I don’t end up in dependency hell with development libraries and underlying infrastructure needs that quickly begin to conflict as I do more testing and development.
After installing, open the Launchpad and locate the Docker Quickstart Terminal icon. Click the icon to launch a Docker Quickstart Terminal window. Installing and running OpenFOAM. Click on the Docker.app to start Docker. The Docker whale in the top status bar indicates Docker is running. Download the following scripts and put. The Docker Toolbox. Contribute to docker/toolbox development by creating an account on GitHub.
Installing Docker Toolbox on Mac OSX or Windows
The best way to get started is to run the Docker Toolbox platform which deploys a Docker environment with popular and important Docker tools including:
- docker-engine
- docker-compose
- docker-machine
- Kitematic
Navigate over to https://www.docker.com/products/docker-toolbox to get your appropriate version:
Rather than document the steps on a continuously changing set of screens, I recommend that you follow the installation process with the tools you desire using the guides provided by Docker here: https://docs.docker.com/toolbox/overview/
Once you’re installed, you can kick the tires on Docker using your first Docker Hello World test container using the
docker run hello-world
command:You can see that the container image was not local, so a download process started and then the container was launched. As long as you see the results like above, you’re in business!
We will be using this as a baseline for a lot of other examples in the blog. As usual, this is meant to emulate a basic Docker configuration and does not really reflect a multi-node deployment with overlay networking. The goal is to be able to quickly and easily launch containers using Docker Engine for a number of admin tasks that can replace what we may have been doing inside dedicated workstations or sandbox virtual machines in the past.
Docker is available for Linux, MacOS, and Windows.
MacOS
Docker for Mac is best installed with Homebrew and Homebrew Cask. For other ways to install on MacOS, see Install Docker for Mac in Docker's docs.
Arch Linux
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Docker Toolbox Mac Download Version
Docker is available in Arch Linux's repositories. Also see Docker in ArchWiki.
Ubuntu
What Is Docker Toolbox
docker.io
is available from the Ubuntu repositories (as of Xenial).docker.io
package isn't available for you, see Get Docker CE for Ubuntu for an alternative.Windows
Install Windows Subsystem for Linux and choose Ubuntu as your guest OS. Install Docker as you normally would on Ubuntu (see above). After that, see these instructions for info on how to get it running.
Other OS's
For other operating systems, see: https://www.docker.com/community-edition#download
Verifying if it works
If everything works, you should have the following commands available:
Starting Docker
Docker Toolbox Windows 10
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If you get an error like the one below, you might need to start the Docker daemon.
To start the Docker daemon, it probably needs one of these commands
Enabling on startup
For Arch Linux, Ubuntu and CentOS, this will enable auto-starting of the Docker service: