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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 mchiang »

dominotw wrote: post #19

Isn't this( http://docs.docker.com/installation/mac/ ) the easiest way to use docker on a mac? Its just 3 shell commands and an installer. I am not clear what kitematic is exactly. A UI on top of docker?

Pretty much just a GUI in our beta. We do some things special like:

- 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. More will come.

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

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Post by noazark »

dominotw wrote: post #19

Isn't this( http://docs.docker.com/installation/mac/ ) the easiest way to use docker on a mac? Its just 3 shell commands and an installer. I am not clear what kitematic is exactly. A UI on top of docker?

The tagline does seem to be marketing jargon, good for them. I'm seasoned with the docker CLI and I still think this is awesome, a UI on top of docker. Mostly it means that I can convince my teammates (who, for example, heavily use GitHub for Mac) to dive into docker without whining.

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

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Post by thejosh »

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

What's wrong with IRC? :)

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

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Post by noazark »

mchiang wrote: post #21
dominotw wrote: post #19

Isn't this( http://docs.docker.com/installation/mac/ ) the easiest way to use docker on a mac? Its just 3 shell commands and an installer. I am not clear what kitematic is exactly. A UI on top of docker?

Pretty much just a GUI in our beta. We do some things special like: - 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. More will come.

Hadn't seen the DNS feature yet, that is amazingly useful! Thank you for that.

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

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Post by Smudge »

mchiang wrote: post #21
dominotw wrote: post #19

Isn't this( http://docs.docker.com/installation/mac/ ) the easiest way to use docker on a mac? Its just 3 shell commands and an installer. I am not clear what kitematic is exactly. A UI on top of docker?

Pretty much just a GUI in our beta. We do some things special like: - 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. More will come.

Does your `.dev` container access conflict with users of pow.cx? Is that configurable?

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

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Post by mchiang »

Smudge wrote: post #26
mchiang wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pretty much just a GUI in our beta. We do some things special like: - 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. More will come.

Does your `.dev` container access conflict with users of pow.cx? Is that configurable?

Not sure yet. Still doing tests around it. [The goal of this beta release is to find most of the bugs so we can iron it out]. I'm sure we'll iron out most of them in the coming week.

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

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Post by mchiang »

dashersw wrote: post #13
mchiang wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

- 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?

We do that. [Although primitive at the moment]

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

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Post by Elesant »

dashersw wrote: post #13
mchiang wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

- 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?

Hey, folders will be created under ~/Kitematic/app_name/volume_name, and the contents of the volume will be sync'ed across the folder and the container.

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

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Post by toomuchcpu »

My MacBookPro's fans start running right after I launch this.

Activity Monitor shows that the node-helper process is eating up no less than 20% cpu, even when no apps are active.

(are all Meteor apps like this?)

This looks nice but unless you can fix that I'm just going to stick with using Docker on OSX the hard way.

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