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Kitematic – The easiest way to start using Docker on your Mac

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Re: Kitematic – The easiest way to start using Docker on your Mac

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Post by bboreham »

mchiang wrote: post #10
bboreham wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It looks like Kitematic uses VirtualBox, a VM. Aside from the GUI, how does it differ from Boot2Docker, which is what the Docker web site tells you to use on a Mac?

- Automatically creates a folder under ~/Kitematic for each Volume. - One click NSEnter into any container. - Any container can be accessed at .dev (automatically sets up a DNS for you, so you can connect a database too using that URL). We're really just trying to make Docker easier to use for Mac right now.

Ok, thanks. Maybe list some of those on your web page or GitHub readme?

Re: Kitematic – The easiest way to start using Docker on your Mac

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Post by dashersw »

mchiang wrote: post #10
bboreham wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It looks like Kitematic uses VirtualBox, a VM. Aside from the GUI, how does it differ from Boot2Docker, which is what the Docker web site tells you to use on a Mac?

- Automatically creates a folder under ~/Kitematic for each Volume. - One click NSEnter into any container. - Any container can be accessed at .dev (automatically sets up a DNS for you, so you can connect a database too using that URL). We're really just trying to make Docker easier to use for Mac right now.

how about attaching volumes?

Re: Kitematic – The easiest way to start using Docker on your Mac

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Post by Elesant »

fishnchips wrote: post #12

Great idea, unfortunately in my case the setup phase gets stuck on 'Setting up the default Kinematic images...'.

Hey, developer of Kitematic here. We have added a page for fixes on known issues: http://kitematic.com/docs/known-issue-fixes/

Let me know if it works! Feel free to hop in our HipChat support as well. :)

Re: Kitematic – The easiest way to start using Docker on your Mac

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Post by mchiang »

fishnchips wrote: post #12

Great idea, unfortunately in my case the setup phase gets stuck on 'Setting up the default Kinematic images...'.

Hey,

Kitematic seems to have a conflict with older versions of boot2docker at the moment. We're still looking into this issue.

In the meantime, some of our users have found success in doing this:

1. In the terminal run boot2docker delete 2. Open Virtualbox and delete the boot2docker vm 3. Delete all the host-only networks under VirtualBox=>Preferences=>Network=>Host-only networks tab 4. Run the installer again

Sorry about all the trouble. We're looking into fixes.

Re: Kitematic – The easiest way to start using Docker on your Mac

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Post by notduncansmith »

Great work, guys! I just wanted to let everyone know that there's a HipChat support room[1] for this project, the creators are there and super helpful. Jeffrey and Michael definitely just set a new bar for open-source project support.

[1] https://www.hipchat.com/giAT9Fqb5

Re: Kitematic – The easiest way to start using Docker on your Mac

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Post by mchiang »

notduncansmith wrote: post #16

Great work, guys! I just wanted to let everyone know that there's a HipChat support room[1] for this project, the creators are there and super helpful. Jeffrey and Michael definitely just set a new bar for open-source project support. [1] https://www.hipchat.com/giAT9Fqb5

Thanks! Sean's pushing out troubleshooting docs so everyone can view them on our docs page [ http://kitematic.com/docs/known-issue-fixes/ ]

Re: Kitematic – The easiest way to start using Docker on your Mac

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Post by mrinterweb »

notduncansmith wrote: post #5
StavrosK wrote: post #4

Aw what! Why is this OS X only? :-( EDIT: Never mind, forgot I had a mac.

It solves a very specific problem - using Docker on OS X is a giant pain. It's pretty easy on something like Ubuntu, but for Mac the typical solution involves Vagrant + a VM, so startup times are slow, it eats a lot of memory and CPU, etc.

I disagree that "using Docker on OS X is a giant pain". I don't really see how this is more than a GUI that works with boot2docker and docker. Kitematic appears to be using boot2docker under the hood. I think using boot2docker is very simple. Once boot2docker is running, as far as I can tell, using docker is the same experience people have on linux.
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