Docker for Mac Beta Review

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Post by ingve » Mon, Apr 25, 2016, 9:19 PM UTC

Re: Docker for Mac Beta Review

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Post by justinhj » Mon, Apr 25, 2016, 9:55 PM UTC

Good review. One thing mentioned is that the author was able to remove Kitematic amongst other things. Kitematic is a GUI for Docker. There is currently no replacement for it.

Re: Docker for Mac Beta Review

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Post by tacos » Mon, Apr 25, 2016, 10:00 PM UTC

This "review" is the technical equivalent of a YouTube unboxing video. Screenshot, screenshot, something I already knew from reading the press release, screenshot, platitude, one big technical error in the conclusion, and done.

If it really worked (especially on Windows) Docker would post the binaries instead of treating this like Wonka Golden Tickets. Love Docker, am actually waiting to be approved so I can get to building something, but posts like this are a symptom of a larger problem.

Re: Docker for Mac Beta Review

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Post by Matt3o12_ » Mon, Apr 25, 2016, 10:00 PM UTC

Why do people value that so much? I really don't care if a tiny VMis running in the background. Also, running that VM gives me more confidence that it will also run on the production machine (since they use the same kernel and the same docker version).

The only problem I had with docker was that I did not use to support shared volumes that are outside the home folder on Mac (I think they changed that now, but I'm not sure).

Re: Docker for Mac Beta Review

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Post by tacos » Mon, Apr 25, 2016, 10:03 PM UTC

Matt3o12_ wrote: post #4

Why do people value that so much? I really don't care if a tiny VMis running in the background. Also, running that VM gives me more confidence that it will also run on the production machine (since they use the same kernel and the same docker version). The only problem I had with docker was that I did not use to support shared volumes that are outside the home folder on Mac (I think they changed that now, but I'm not…

VirtualBox and VMWare are hardly "tiny." I've never had a good experience with VirtualBox on any platform. Thing is constantly broken and endlessly updated to break in newer, less Google-able ways and just causes never-ending grief in unexpected places for me.

Re: Docker for Mac Beta Review

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Post by Osiris » Mon, Apr 25, 2016, 10:04 PM UTC

I'm a node.js developer. I understand the benefit of using docker for deployments or CI testing, but I have yet to be convinced of the benefits of using it for development on my local machine.

I install node, postgres, and redis natively and it all works fine. What benefits does docker provide to my workflow?

Re: Docker for Mac Beta Review

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Post by rzimmerman » Mon, Apr 25, 2016, 10:04 PM UTC

I've been using the Mac Beta for a few weeks and I can also say it's great. Install is easy and it just works. It's such a relief being able to do dev work directly on my machine without docker-machine/VirtualBox. I've been hitting it with a variety of Ubuntu-based containers without any issues.

Re: Docker for Mac Beta Review

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Post by viglesiasce » Mon, Apr 25, 2016, 10:04 PM UTC

I've been using the following docker-machine plugin and found it to be great: https://github.com/zchee/docker-machine-driver-xhyve

Re: Docker for Mac Beta Review

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Post by accounthere » Mon, Apr 25, 2016, 10:06 PM UTC

Osiris wrote: post #6

I'm a node.js developer. I understand the benefit of using docker for deployments or CI testing, but I have yet to be convinced of the benefits of using it for development on my local machine. I install node, postgres, and redis natively and it all works fine. What benefits does docker provide to my workflow?

You might need different node/postgres versions for different projects.

Re: Docker for Mac Beta Review

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Post by striking » Mon, Apr 25, 2016, 10:06 PM UTC

tacos wrote: post #5

Matt3o12_ wrote: post #4

Why do people value that so much? I really don't care if a tiny VMis running in the background. Also, running that VM gives me more confidence that it will also run on the production machine (since they use the same kernel and the same docker version). The only problem I had with docker was that I did not use to support shared volumes that are outside the home folder on Mac (I think they changed that now, but I'm not…

VirtualBox and VMWare are hardly "tiny." I've never had a good experience with VirtualBox on any platform. Thing is constantly broken and endlessly updated to break in newer, less Google-able ways and just causes never-ending grief in unexpected places for me.

By contrast, I've never once had an issue with VirtualBox. Vagrant and VirtualBox are my best buddies.