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Re: The easiest way to use Docker on your Mac

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Post by afarrell »

josteink wrote: post #12

I'll just go ahead and take the downvotes for suggesting that people who want to use Linux-technology, like Docker, within their OS should just use Linux as their OS. Yeah. Call me crazy, but I honestly think that makes a whole lot of sense.

And that's why I rent servers from digital ocean or linode. However, nobody has yet written http://selfcontrolapp.com/ for OS X but they have written xmonad (the thing that was keeping me on desktop Linux) for OSX.

http://ianyh.com/amethyst/

And no, I can't write self-control on Linux for myself, because then circumventing it to read the news wouldn't require more patient thought than whatever I'm trying to focus on. Please don't discuss how it works in replying to my comment. I want not to know.

Re: The easiest way to use Docker on your Mac

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Post by xorcist »

mbell wrote: post #28
josteink wrote: post #12

I'll just go ahead and take the downvotes for suggesting that people who want to use Linux-technology, like Docker, within their OS should just use Linux as their OS. Yeah. Call me crazy, but I honestly think that makes a whole lot of sense.

> people who want to use Linux-technology, like Docker What defines Docker as 'linux technology'? It has an execution driver API specifically designed to support multiple backends, e.g. BSD jails. I wouldn't use the fact that they started with linux support to declare them 'linux technology', whatever that means.

Probably because the vast majority that run Docker do so on Linux. It is therefore the most well tested code paths. Ignore that at your own peril.

Re: The easiest way to use Docker on your Mac

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Post by prezjordan »

StefanKarpinski wrote: post #6

This landing page fails the "what is it?" test. Seems like I might want this since it involves Docker and Macs, but I still don't know what it is. Yes, there's a video, but you should not have to watch a video to know what something is; worse still, the video doesn't even tell you what Kitematic is – it just tells you that it "helps you get started with Docker". Ok...

The image does all the talking. For accessibility/SEO purposes, there could definitely be some more descriptive copy.

But I think it's disingenuous to say this landing page doesn't explain what it is.

Re: The easiest way to use Docker on your Mac

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Post by afarrell »

mbell wrote: post #28
josteink wrote: post #12

I'll just go ahead and take the downvotes for suggesting that people who want to use Linux-technology, like Docker, within their OS should just use Linux as their OS. Yeah. Call me crazy, but I honestly think that makes a whole lot of sense.

> people who want to use Linux-technology, like Docker What defines Docker as 'linux technology'? It has an execution driver API specifically designed to support multiple backends, e.g. BSD jails. I wouldn't use the fact that they started with linux support to declare them 'linux technology', whatever that means.

Docker is a "Linux Technology" because it is based on a particular feature of the Linux kernel (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LXC) and you need to run a Linux kernel (either in a vm or on bare metal) to run them.

Re: The easiest way to use Docker on your Mac

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Post by jmorgan »

SuperKlaus wrote: post #10
marvel_boy wrote: post #2

Anyone can share their experiences with Kitematic?

Tried starting a redis container, got this: 500 server error - No command specified

Hi there (I'm a Kitematic maintainer) - sorry you received an error. Was this from trying the official redis repo, or a different one?

Re: The easiest way to use Docker on your Mac

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Post by jaegerpicker »

josteink wrote: post #12

I'll just go ahead and take the downvotes for suggesting that people who want to use Linux-technology, like Docker, within their OS should just use Linux as their OS. Yeah. Call me crazy, but I honestly think that makes a whole lot of sense.

Why would I restrict myself to Linux if the tooling I prefer is only available on Mac? I guess if my entire workflow was terminal based then Linux would make sense but I'm more productive with Intellij, Kaleidoscope, Tower Git, iTerm, and my iTunes library of music. A vm running centOs and using docker let's me use my favorite tools and still leverage Linux as a deployment environment, how does that not make sense?

Re: The easiest way to use Docker on your Mac

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Post by wedowhatwedo »

dorfsmay wrote: post #27
e40 wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Many of us want to use software that is not available on Linux, like Adobe's Lightroom. Like using Linux, that is a choice.

That's what VMs are for, not containers.

Some of us that use Mac applications don't like to break the law and run OS X in a VM when that is not allowed by the license agreement. You can run it in a VM if your host OS is OS X, but not if it is Linux.

I use OS X with VMware fusion and am very happy with it. I can run the commercial apps I need plus Linux, Windows, docker...

Re: The easiest way to use Docker on your Mac

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Post by jmorgan »

zenocon wrote: post #14

I tried Kitematic briefly and it seemed fairly buggy. I also was getting some kind of conflict between it and the command line tools with boot2docker. I just stopped using it and moved straight to boot2docker. Your other options on Mac are Vagrant's docker provider -- which is nice, but I agree in general with the sentiment that it is even nicer to just use Linux natively.

Sorry to hear that it was buggy. I'd love to know the specific issues you ran into - I'm a Kitematic maintainer.

Re: The easiest way to use Docker on your Mac

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Post by rmurri »

afarrell wrote: post #31
josteink wrote: post #12

I'll just go ahead and take the downvotes for suggesting that people who want to use Linux-technology, like Docker, within their OS should just use Linux as their OS. Yeah. Call me crazy, but I honestly think that makes a whole lot of sense.

And that's why I rent servers from digital ocean or linode. However, nobody has yet written http://selfcontrolapp.com/ for OS X but they have written xmonad (the thing that was keeping me on desktop Linux) for OSX. http://ianyh.com/amethyst/ And no, I can't write self-control on Linux for myself, because then circumventing it to read the news wouldn't require more patient thought than whatever I'm trying to focus on.…

In the selfcontrollapp faq they list a linux version http://svn.jklmnop.net/projects/SelfControl.html that I have seen referenced. I have not given it a try.

Re: The easiest way to use Docker on your Mac

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Post by jmorgan »

beat wrote: post #30
marvel_boy wrote: post #2

Anyone can share their experiences with Kitematic?

I'm using it. Took a little wiggling and getting used to, but so did Boot2Docker. Overall, I think it's buggier and less mature, but more capable. The GUI output and log views are handy for quick debugging of obvious problems.

Thanks for taking Kitematic for a spin. What bugs did you run into? Would love to get those fixed I'm a Kitematic maintainer.
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