I wish it wasn't necessary to use a VM to run Docker on a Mac. Shouldn't it be easy to get Jails running on OSX, and wouldn't that be a good basis for Docker? (I'm not sure.)
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
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
mounting host directories into containers with -v is one place b2d definitely hurts more than running on linux directly.
The options appear to be:
1. Don't do that
2. Mount something via samba into the b2d vm, then -v it into your container
3. Use virtualbox directory sharing (which won't work properly/at all)
Re: Kitematic – The easiest way to start using Docker on your Mac
#33My 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.
I find that I have a similar issue with all node apps on my Macbook Pro
Re: Kitematic – The easiest way to start using Docker on your Mac
#34I wish it wasn't necessary to use a VM to run Docker on a Mac. Shouldn't it be easy to get Jails running on OSX, and wouldn't that be a good basis for Docker? (I'm not sure.)
You still have the issue of not having an implementation of an Ethernet or network virtualisation features like Crossbow/VImage.
Even if you were to solve that you would be stuck with the VFS graph driver unless you could get a CoW filesystem up and running on OSX (maybe revamp the old ZFS port?).
Docker is much more than just jailing is basically the problem.
Re: Kitematic – The easiest way to start using Docker on your Mac
#35Great 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? :)
Nothing really, though I've personally never had a great experience with IRC (not the medium's fault of course). I was remarking more on the enthusiasm and helpfulness of the team.
Re: Kitematic – The easiest way to start using Docker on your Mac
#36Thanks!
Re: Kitematic – The easiest way to start using Docker on your Mac
#37Great job. I love tools that make things dead simple :)
Re: Kitematic – The easiest way to start using Docker on your Mac
#38As a devops user, this would be not so useful. It was my first thought when I saw this. But, wait a minute, if this can replace MAMP, or XAMPP, it would be great. It will help the new user get the development environment setting up in no time, isolated environment and beautiful application. It would be a win.
Nice work !
Re: Kitematic – The easiest way to start using Docker on your Mac
#39As a devops user, this would be not so useful. It was my first thought when I saw this. But, wait a minute, if this can replace MAMP, or XAMPP, it would be great. It will help the new user get the development environment setting up in no time, isolated environment and beautiful application. It would be a win. Nice work !
For the same reason I use Vagrant. I would like to hear why would anybody use Docker instead of Vagrant and vice versa?
Re: Kitematic – The easiest way to start using Docker on your Mac
#40In case you're having installer issues: https://kitematic.com/docs/known-issue-fixes/
If that doesn't fix, please submit a bug report: https://kitematic.com/docs/help-us-debug/
Feel free to jump in our support chat as well.
Sorry for the trouble. We're working on a fix.