docker-host

docker-host uses Vagrant to provide an experience similar to boot2docker, and serves as a seamless layer for interacting w/ docker through the host operating system.

docker-host has a very simple ansible playbook called docker-host.yml that configures the the docker daemon living in the docker-host as well as sets up a seamless private network to interact with the docker-host through the host operating system -- OSX and Linux systems are supported only for now.

The main purpose of docker-host is to essentially serve a virtual machine that runs the docker daemon. This becomes the basis of an execution environment for all docker images, used in the instructions further below, in which a shared virtual machine executes all the docker images and exposes them via the host machine's command-line client.

Instructions

OSX

To get started, on your host system, you need:

• Ansible 1.8.2+
• Vagrant 1.7+
• docker v1.6.0

brew commands

• brew install ansible
• brew cask install vagrant
• vagrant plugin install nugrant
• brew install docker

LINUX

(todo)

Play

Then, vagrant up docker-host - wait until it's done.

Then, export DOCKER_HOST=10.2.0.10:2375 (probably should put that in your ${shell}rc or ${shell}profile).

To test a successful installation, type in docker ps from your host machine cli and you should see:

mahmoud@gauss:15/04/08,11:09 λ ~ rb:1.9.3-p286
❯❯❯ uname -a                                                                                                                        ⏎
Darwin gauss 14.1.0 Darwin Kernel Version 14.1.0: Thu Feb 26 19:26:47 PST 2015; root:xnu-2782.10.73~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64

mahmoud@gauss:15/04/08,11:09 λ ~ rb:1.9.3-p286
❯❯❯ docker ps
CONTAINER ID        IMAGE                          COMMAND                CREATED             STATUS              PORTS                                                                    NAMES

When done provisioning, docker login to set credentials.