Kitematic v0.4 • Hacker News Board

Re: Kitematic v0.4

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Post by jmorgan » Tue, Dec 02, 2014, 5:24 PM UTC

tigeba wrote: post #6

Just some observations from me. Looks interesting, but I'm already using docker on OSX, would like to try it out but don't want to run the installer and have it mess up my current boot2docker setup. If there was a version that had no installer, or could be configured to hit an existing docker server that would be nice. Bonus if it supported TLS, many of the docker tools barely support TLS currently.

Just as a note, Kitematic will update your boot2docker VM version to the latest 1.3.2 version. It will also update VirtualBox to 4.3.18 if the current version is lower than that.

The installer essentially runs: boot2docker upgrade boot2docker up

and then connects to it as a Docker client at `boot2docker ip`

A future plan is to allow Kitematic to be pointed at any Docker host, stay tuned :-)

Re: Kitematic v0.4

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Post by preillyme » Tue, Dec 02, 2014, 6:27 PM UTC

I'm really glad to see that I don't need a DNS server inside the VM in the new release.

Re: Kitematic v0.4

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Post by preillyme » Tue, Dec 02, 2014, 6:29 PM UTC

mchiang wrote: post #5

math0ne wrote: post #4

Anything like this for windows?

Not yet. I'm sure there are others working on it too.

I'd love to see a Windows version for sure.

Re: Kitematic v0.4

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Post by mchiang » Tue, Dec 02, 2014, 6:44 PM UTC

preillyme wrote: post #12

I'm really glad to see that I don't need a DNS server inside the VM in the new release.

Thanks! Feel free to give us feedback by creating github issues or directly emailing: contact@kitematic.com

We read all the emails coming in. It gets forwarded to all of us.

Re: Kitematic v0.4

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Post by mchiang » Tue, Dec 02, 2014, 6:46 PM UTC

preillyme wrote: post #13

mchiang wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not yet. I'm sure there are others working on it too.

I'd love to see a Windows version for sure.

It's planned for Kitematic, but we need to make sure the Mac versions works well first.

Re: Kitematic v0.4

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Post by kaylarose » Tue, Dec 02, 2014, 8:46 PM UTC

Elesant wrote: post #9

kaylarose wrote: post #7

How would you say the stability of this release compares to the last version? I understand it's very new software, but the last version I played with (1-2 weeks ago) was incredibly buggy. Not just in terms of core functionality (hanging packages etc - some of which I see you have addressed https://github.com/kitematic/kitematic/milestones/v0.4.0 ) but just in terms of the general UI, buttons randomly disappearing/app…

Hi kaylarose. Really sorry about the app being buggy and thank you for understanding that we're still very new. Previous versions of Kitematic relied on too many dependencies: VirtualBox, boot2docker, a DNS server inside the boot2docker VM and Unison for file syncing. The current version removed the need for the DNS server inside the VM and Unison, slimmed down the app and fixed a lot of the critical installer issues…

Excellent, thank you for the detailed reply! I am looking forward to the evolution of this app.