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Re: Docker for Mac Beta Review

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Post by shykes »

shuzchen wrote: post #13

Can anybody in HN provide a quickpath into the beta? I signed up when it was first announced (seems to be over 30 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11352389 ) but haven't heard anything back yet.

If you're comfortable sharing your Docker ID, feel free to share it here and we'll fast-track you!

Generally anyone who cares enough to ask directly, we'll automatically add to the top of the list.

EDIT: or, feel free to contact us privately with a few details on your configuration and use case: feedback+hn@docker.com

Re: Docker for Mac Beta Review

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Post by qhoc »

shykes wrote: post #91
shuzchen wrote: post #13

Can anybody in HN provide a quickpath into the beta? I signed up when it was first announced (seems to be over 30 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11352389 ) but haven't heard anything back yet.

If you're comfortable sharing your Docker ID, feel free to share it here and we'll fast-track you! Generally anyone who cares enough to ask directly, we'll automatically add to the top of the list. EDIT: or, feel free to contact us privately with a few details on your configuration and use case: feedback+hn@docker.com

Hi, I believe I pinged on Twitter but haven't heard back after 3 weeks. Can you invite me "quanghoc"? Thanks

Re: Docker for Mac Beta Review

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Post by vhiremath4 »

shykes wrote: post #91
shuzchen wrote: post #13

Can anybody in HN provide a quickpath into the beta? I signed up when it was first announced (seems to be over 30 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11352389 ) but haven't heard anything back yet.

If you're comfortable sharing your Docker ID, feel free to share it here and we'll fast-track you! Generally anyone who cares enough to ask directly, we'll automatically add to the top of the list. EDIT: or, feel free to contact us privately with a few details on your configuration and use case: feedback+hn@docker.com

vinayh

Thank you!

Re: Docker for Mac Beta Review

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Post by suneilp »

shykes wrote: post #91
shuzchen wrote: post #13

Can anybody in HN provide a quickpath into the beta? I signed up when it was first announced (seems to be over 30 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11352389 ) but haven't heard anything back yet.

If you're comfortable sharing your Docker ID, feel free to share it here and we'll fast-track you! Generally anyone who cares enough to ask directly, we'll automatically add to the top of the list. EDIT: or, feel free to contact us privately with a few details on your configuration and use case: feedback+hn@docker.com

I'd like to get bumped to the top. Currently researching docker for my company and having it work natively on mac would be awesome. My docker id is suneilp

Thanks.

Re: Docker for Mac Beta Review

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Post by joshvm »

VMWare Fusion does a few extremely useful things that Docker doesn't - for instance it can hook into an existing Boot Camp install and load it as a VM. It may be a bit heavy for the (Linux) applications Docker excels at, but for me it's worth the money just for the Windows VM support.

Re: Docker for Mac Beta Review

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Post by fredoliveira »

shykes wrote: post #91
shuzchen wrote: post #13

Can anybody in HN provide a quickpath into the beta? I signed up when it was first announced (seems to be over 30 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11352389 ) but haven't heard anything back yet.

If you're comfortable sharing your Docker ID, feel free to share it here and we'll fast-track you! Generally anyone who cares enough to ask directly, we'll automatically add to the top of the list. EDIT: or, feel free to contact us privately with a few details on your configuration and use case: feedback+hn@docker.com

would be stoked to be fast-tracked also. Docker ID 'fredoliveira'. Thank you!

Re: Docker for Mac Beta Review

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Post by m_mueller »

jdub wrote: post #14

Same experience here, both on Mac and Windows. They've done a great job making it "just work". The user interface pieces are a bit raw -- perhaps "minimalist" or "unobtrusive" would put that in a better light! -- but clearly most of the work has gone into the lower level integration, where it shines. Docker for Mac/Windows, once released, will nuke the ick factor on those platforms from orbit, which can only lead to…

I hope there's going to be an easy way to package this with your own docker image in order to have a new way to distribute applications. My usecase is running a server locally so you can use a webapp with local network speed and offline access and lots of local storage.

Re: Docker for Mac Beta Review

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Post by FrenchBen »

fredoliveira wrote: post #96
shykes wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you're comfortable sharing your Docker ID, feel free to share it here and we'll fast-track you! Generally anyone who cares enough to ask directly, we'll automatically add to the top of the list. EDIT: or, feel free to contact us privately with a few details on your configuration and use case: feedback+hn@docker.com

would be stoked to be fast-tracked also. Docker ID 'fredoliveira'. Thank you!

Did you signup on beta.docker.com?

Re: Docker for Mac Beta Review

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Post by zxcvcxz »

mwcampbell wrote: post #90

Sounds promising. But I'd like to see Docker work with Microsoft to produce something even better for Windows, using the new Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). With WSL, Docker and Microsoft should be able to bring Linux-based Docker containers to Windows, without the performance hit and resource fragmentation that inevitably come with virtualization. True, WSL doesn't support namespaces and cgroups, but IIUC, Window…

What is the use case though? What would be even better is if MS created a "windows container" that could run under Linux, then you could just ditch windows all together.

I don't see big companies using something this hackish for containers that are running on servers anyway. For working on the desktop this might come in handy for devs, but honestly I think MS should focus their energy on something else.

Re: Docker for Mac Beta Review

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Post by coldtea »

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?

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

Isn't it obvious?

With docker (or vagrant, or at least a VM etc) you can have the SAME environment as the deployment one. If you run OS X or Windows your direct local installs with differ in numerous ways to your deployment. And same if you run Linux but not the same distro or the same release.

And that's just the start.

Who said you'd be working in only one deployment/app at the time? If you need two different environments -- it could be even while working on version 2.0 of the same web app with new technologies--, e.g. one with Node 4 and one with Node 5, or a different postgres version, etc, you suddenly have to juggle all of these in your desktop OS.

Now you need to add custom ways to switch between them (e.g. can't have 2 postgres running on the same port at the same time), some will be incompatible to install together etc.

Without a vm/docker you also don't have snapshots (stored versions of the whole system installed, configured, and "frozen")...

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