Simplifying Docker on OS X

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Post by joeyespo » Mon, Jan 25, 2016, 6:52 PM UTC

Simplifying Docker on OS X
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Re: Simplifying Docker on OS X

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Post by corybrown » Mon, Jan 25, 2016, 7:37 PM UTC

Pretty cool trick to make the OS X docker hacks feel transparent. I've been tempted into getting a Linux laptop just because using Docker on OS X feels so hacky.

Re: Simplifying Docker on OS X

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Post by sciurus » Mon, Jan 25, 2016, 7:53 PM UTC

The interesting links are

https://github.com/nlf/dhyve

https://github.com/nlf/dhyve-os

Re: Simplifying Docker on OS X

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Post by sneak » Mon, Jan 25, 2016, 7:54 PM UTC

Docker does run natively on OSX.

Just forward a port with ssh/socat/etc and set the environment variable correctly to point to your build host that can run lxc.

There is so much over-engineering going on in this arena. :/

Re: Simplifying Docker on OS X

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Post by tniswong » Mon, Jan 25, 2016, 7:58 PM UTC

I just use bash aliases in my .profile

----

alias dm="docker-machine"

alias dc="docker-compose"

alias denv='function __denv() { eval "$(dm env $@)"; unset -f __denv; }; __denv'

----

dm create --driver virtualbox local

denv local

Also works with swarm params:

denv local --swarm swarm-master

Re: Simplifying Docker on OS X

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Post by ialex » Mon, Jan 25, 2016, 7:59 PM UTC

Add this to your bash profile and it will feel simpler

function docker_activate() { eval $(docker-machine env $1) }

alias docker_activate=docker_activate

Then:

docker-machine start mymachine

docker_activate mymachine

Re: Simplifying Docker on OS X

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Post by mr337 » Mon, Jan 25, 2016, 8:05 PM UTC

corybrown wrote: post #2

Pretty cool trick to make the OS X docker hacks feel transparent. I've been tempted into getting a Linux laptop just because using Docker on OS X feels so hacky.

I did and never looked back. Lenovo X1 Carbon Gen 3

Re: Simplifying Docker on OS X

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Post by josteink » Mon, Jan 25, 2016, 8:06 PM UTC

> However, there's one big challenge with adopting Docker for our developers: it doesn't natively work on OS X.

Then don't use OSX. Problem solved.

Re: Simplifying Docker on OS X

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Post by sbd01 » Mon, Jan 25, 2016, 8:06 PM UTC

corybrown wrote: post #2

Pretty cool trick to make the OS X docker hacks feel transparent. I've been tempted into getting a Linux laptop just because using Docker on OS X feels so hacky.

Would it not just be easier to dual boot Linux? If you've got a big enough hard drive it works very nicely.

Re: Simplifying Docker on OS X

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Post by BinaryIdiot » Mon, Jan 25, 2016, 8:10 PM UTC

Thank you! I'll have to check this out. It baffles me that a company such as Docker has yet to make using its primary product on Mac OS X simple plug and play. Needing to remember to run `eval $(docker-machine env docker)` is not a sustainable solution. Hell I know about this and would occasionally forget and become confused at the error messages.

In fact I put this horrible hack into my ~/.bash_profile (I wouldn't recommend doing this but, hey, it works.):

docker-machine start dev

eval "$(docker-machine env dev)"