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Fast and easy installation of Docker on OS X
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Use boot2docker instead of Ubuntu #17

Open julien-duponchelle opened 10 years ago

julien-duponchelle commented 10 years ago

Boot2docker is lighter than ubuntu: https://github.com/steeve/boot2docker

julien-duponchelle commented 10 years ago

PS: I have worked with steeve the author of boot2docker in a previous company, it's a small world :)

bfirsh commented 10 years ago

Small world indeed.

@josephschorr is interested in working on this too.

bfirsh commented 10 years ago

At the moment getting docker-osx to build on Vagrant is not straight forward:

https://github.com/steeve/boot2docker/issues/29

It would be brilliant to do this without Vagrant, but I haven't investigated the complexity of that.

shykes commented 10 years ago

+1 on using boot2docker :)

fxposter commented 10 years ago

https://github.com/mitchellh/boot2docker-vagrant-box now it IS more than straightforward!

mmerickel commented 10 years ago

My 2cents on this whole thing is that the docker-osx api is basically perfect for most usages. The only things it could change underneath are dropping vagrant and using VBoxManage directly to spin up a boot2docker vm instead of building a new one. When I've looked at boot2docker's init scripts they just aren't as nice for bootstrapping a system as the docker-osx setup. For example, they still use port forwarding instead of just mapping everything to localdocker and mapping your home directory into the VM for seamless usage from the outside in things like volume mounting is a very manual and annoying process.

michaelneale commented 10 years ago

Agree - I liked docker-osx and boot2docker image seems perfect. The localdocker convention for the guest VM I think is a great one to encourage - over port forwarding (keep port forwading for only docker and ssh ports).

I have seen people tripped up, many times, when trying to run an image (often based on the Vagrantfile in the docker repo) as one of the 40K port ranges it wants to forward is in use by Skype or other desktop tools.

This is good stuff!

drnic commented 10 years ago

As long as we keep synced folders. The https://github.com/mitchellh/boot2docker-vagrant-box project seemed to lose synced folders support when using boot2docker ISO due to lack of guest additions.

I think the request in this ticket is equivalent to https://github.com/fnichol/dvm project?

michaelneale commented 10 years ago

yes likely so.

Running ubuntu isn't too bad for when you do want to ssh in and run thing in linux (when debugging interaction with the the docker client - you really want to do that). I wonder if the memory footprint is that different - I didn't notice boot2docker was really much better for me in either disk/download or memory (but I didn't look close). Might be more interesting to see if vagrant in the middle can be done away with (go direct to vbox cli).