3/11/2019 0 Comments Docker Toolbox For MacToday we’re announcing a new installer for Mac OS X and Windows called. We’ve been hearing again and again that it can be difficult to get up and started with Docker in development, particularly when you’ve got your app defined with Compose and then have to install Compose separately. With the popularity of Compose, Kitematic and Boot2Docker, we realized we needed to make all the pieces work better together. Docker Toolbox is an installer for quick setup and launch of a Docker environment on older Mac and Windows systems that do not meet the requirements of the new Docker for Mac and Docker for Windows apps. The toolbox consists of the following components − Docker Engine − This is used as the base engine or Docker daemon that is used to run Docker containers. Docker Machine − for running Docker machine commands. Docker Compose for running Docker compose commands. Kinematic − This is the Docker GUI built for Windows and Mac OS. Installs everything you need to get Docker running in development: the Docker client, Compose (Mac only), Kitematic, Machine, and VirtualBox. Uses Machine and VirtualBox to create an Engine in a VM to run your containers. On top of that VM, you can then use the Docker client, Compose and Kitematic to run containers. Does this replace Boot2Docker? Yes, is now the recommended way to get started with Docker. Although the Boot2Docker installer has been quite popular, has been designed to include the the growing set of Docker developer tools like Kitematic, Machine, Swarm, and Compose. Boot2Docker also installed a command-line tool called boot2docker which was used to manage the Docker VM. In Toolbox this has been replaced with Machine. However under the hood, Machine still uses the to run your containers. The difference is that the containers are now managed by Machine instead of the boot2docker command-line tool. If you are currently using the official Boot2Docker ( boot2docker-vm), will prompt you to automatically migrate to the new default VM using Docker Machine. If you prefer to manually migrate your Boot2Docker VM, please check out. We are very excited to have you try Docker Toolbox and give us feedback! Check out the links below to get started and for more resources. Additional resources: • • • • • Join our upcoming Docker online meetups featuring Docker engineers discussing the latest features of Docker 1.8 including plugins, Docker Content Trust and Toolbox – to register! Learn More about Docker • New to Docker? Try our 10 min • Share images, automate builds, and more with a • Read the Docker • Subscribe to • Register for upcoming • Attend upcoming • Register for • Start,,,,,. [] Docker Toolbox – Toolbox is an installer that simplifies the setup of Docker on developers’ laptops and PCs with versions for Windows, Macs, and Linux. Previously, Docker offered a tool called Boot2Docker which often required a lot of troubleshooting to make it work correctly. I personally could never get Boot2Docker to work correctly on my laptop. I was able to get Docker to work on a VM on the Google Cloud Platform where I did all of my experimentation, but now with Toolbox everything works great on my PC. I will admit that the initial install of Toolbox had a few issues with migrating my old Virtual Box files, but after I uninstalled all of my old stuff and reinstalled it work cleanly. This is great news for developers who want to try out containers without spending countless hours struggling through configuring Docker on their laptops. Let me put it to the practical prospective: • At home I run Windows 10 Insider Preview, with Hyper-V role happily enabled. Thus I use 'Docker for Windows', which provides some benefits like Windows containers; • But while I’m at work I had to disable Hyper-V role on Windows 10 machine due to heavy investments in the Vmware images we done for development and debugging process. And Vmware is very incompatible with Hyper-V (or any other VMM which would use VTx). Thus I’m running boot2docker based “Docker Toolbox” with vmwareworkstation driver. The boot2docker approach is nicely portable to different kinds of VMMs beyond Hyper-V, and allows us to keep our investments in virtual machines created, but has significant disadvantage - they do not run Windows-based containers. In a dev team where we have multiple operating systems (Windows 7, Windows 10, OS X) I’ve found Docker Toolbox to be preferable. Enabling Hyper-V in Windows isn’t always ideal (or possible) especially if you rely on Virtualbox on the same machine for doing other things, which means Docker Toolbox is still something that we’ll need to rely on for the foreseeable future. I hope Docker Toolbox continues to receive client updates for a while yet because it definitely solves a different need than the “native” Windows and Mac installers.
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