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Announcing Docker ToolBox

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Re: Announcing Docker ToolBox

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Post by starikovs »

I use Vagrant+Docker for development, no problems to install. First, I tried to use boot2docker but I didn't like it. Vagrant has a Docker provisioner or there's a plugin for Vagrant for Docker Compose.

Re: Announcing Docker ToolBox

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Post by girvo »

Nice one. However, VirtualBox's shared-folder support is so god-awfully slow, that here at work we all swapped out the regular boot2docker setup for boot2docker-xhyve[0] which is so much faster at nearly everything that it's not even a comparison.

Now, with ailispaw's dockeroot-xhyve you can even get a VM root image that can be grown on the fly, so you never run out of space on your VM when building large Docker images.

In addition, I'd never recommend Docker Compose to web developers that rely on databases, as quirks with it have caused many a volume-only container to be destroyed and rebuilt, thus defeating the purpose.

[0] https://github.com/ailispaw/boot2docker-xhyve

Re: Announcing Docker ToolBox

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Post by domrdy »

girvo wrote: post #3

Nice one. However, VirtualBox's shared-folder support is so god-awfully slow, that here at work we all swapped out the regular boot2docker setup for boot2docker-xhyve[0] which is so much faster at nearly everything that it's not even a comparison. Now, with ailispaw's dockeroot-xhyve you can even get a VM root image that can be grown on the fly, so you never run out of space on your VM when building large Docker imag…

Interesting, thanks for sharing! I agree that the shared folder situation is catastrophic. Doing anything significant with the mounted folders, like doing builds or simply watching for changes is unbearably slow. What I generally do is have a 'rsync' container and attach its volume (--volumes-from) to all containers that depend on the folders. Then, I watch on local file changes and rsync to the container. Builds etc. are all done within containers and this seems to work great!

Re: Announcing Docker ToolBox

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Post by honest_joe »

starikovs wrote: post #2

I use Vagrant+Docker for development, no problems to install. First, I tried to use boot2docker but I didn't like it. Vagrant has a Docker provisioner or there's a plugin for Vagrant for Docker Compose.

But Vagrant uses boot2docker underneath. Do you use docker provider or a linux image with docker installed ?

Also how do they compare ? Ignoring the boot2docker image vs base image with docker.

Re: Announcing Docker ToolBox

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Post by raesene4 »

This looks cool, although for the Windows install I'd have hoped that there would be an option to integrate Hyper-V with it instead of Virtualbox, seeing as Hyper-V is available on all Windows 8.1/10 pro/enterprise systems, and having multiple virtualization platforms active on a system is generally a bad idea...

Re: Announcing Docker ToolBox

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Post by elvis635 »

girvo wrote: post #3

Nice one. However, VirtualBox's shared-folder support is so god-awfully slow, that here at work we all swapped out the regular boot2docker setup for boot2docker-xhyve[0] which is so much faster at nearly everything that it's not even a comparison. Now, with ailispaw's dockeroot-xhyve you can even get a VM root image that can be grown on the fly, so you never run out of space on your VM when building large Docker imag…

Docker under OSX is a real pain to solve ASAP.

I've set Docker on my Linux machine and it's working like a charm. Then I had to do the same for my coworkers running OSX, the vbox shared folders are definitely unusable.

Now it's been few days that I'm trying to find the best way to have a two-way sync in order to sync back changes from docker to the OSX folder (eg. when you upload a file and it's saved in the /public folder, otherwise it'll be lost)

So far I've used docker-osx-dev[0] for 1 way sync (with rsync) and it's working nicely.. they also plan to add the support to unison for a 2way sync

I've also found docker-unison[1] but I haven't found a way to have it working correctly

I'd like to try with boot2docker-xhyve, but it only runs on Yosemite and later

[0] https://github.com/brikis98/docker-osx-dev

[1] https://github.com/leighmcculloch/docker-unison

Re: Announcing Docker ToolBox

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Post by rcarmo »

girvo wrote: post #3

Nice one. However, VirtualBox's shared-folder support is so god-awfully slow, that here at work we all swapped out the regular boot2docker setup for boot2docker-xhyve[0] which is so much faster at nearly everything that it's not even a comparison. Now, with ailispaw's dockeroot-xhyve you can even get a VM root image that can be grown on the fly, so you never run out of space on your VM when building large Docker imag…

Let me chime in and say that getting rid of VirtualBox and moving to xhyve would be amazing. I was really sad when this PR was closed:

https://github.com/docker/machine/pull/1358#issuecomment-126...

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