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boot2docker maintenance mode #4584

Open guy-BW opened 5 years ago

guy-BW commented 5 years ago

I'm confused.

Boot2docker is reported as in maintenance mode. Their website and GitHub suggest migrating to docker-machine. However when I use docker-machine it's downloading and using boot2docker.iso as the base OS image.

Is boot2docker going away, this is slow migration? if I should not be using boot2docker anymore then what should I use?

I rather liked the idea of a small OS which booted from ISO to run docker images. I want to use this on VMs and metal.

Thanks

afbjorklund commented 5 years ago

The boot2docker CLI is indeed going away, it was replaced by the docker-machine CLI.

And both of them are in maintenance mode, both Boot2Docker ISO and Docker Machine:

Boot2Docker is officialy in maintenance mode -- it is recommended that users transition from Boot2Docker over to Docker for Mac or Docker for Windows instead.

As has been obvious for some time now, we've slowly stopped implementing or accepting new features for the project. Its desktop usage has mostly been supplanted by our Docker Desktop product.

guy-new commented 5 years ago

I am indeed using docker for Mac which works great... however I'm looking to run docker on metal and light weight VMs which boot2docker seemed to fit very nicely. I liked the boot from ISO image which I can modify/upgrade, reboot system and upgrade complete, or roll back to previous version. I don't really want to run ubuntu and then install docker as it's likely an admin pain not to mention big over head.

Do you have any recommendations for running my own docker cloud? if not using boot2docker as the underlying OS?

Thanks

afbjorklund commented 5 years ago

You can still use boot2docker.iso and docker-machine, while stocks last. There are plenty of other Linux distributions, if you don't like to run Ubuntu...

afbjorklund commented 5 years ago

Some updates on https://github.com/boot2docker/boot2docker#readme and https://github.com/docker/machine/issues/4537#issuecomment-430950108 - this duplicate issue can probablty be closed...