Docker is available for Linux, MacOS, and Windows.
Running Docker Toolbox and Docker for Mac on the same host. You can run both Docker Toolbox and Docker for Mac on the same system, but not at the same time. When you use Docker for Mac, you need to unset all of your environment variables, using one of the methods above. How to install Docker on your Mac 1. Create a Docker Hub account. Docker Hub keeps track of the containers you're running (or creating) and provides a one-stop shop to find new ones. Sign up for a Docker account with a unique Docker ID, your email, and a strong password. Download Docker Desktop for Mac. Once you've signed up and signed in to. The Docker Toolbox is an installer to quickly and easily install and setup a Docker environment on your computer. Available for both Windows and Mac, the Toolbox installs Docker Client, Docker Machine, Docker Compose (Mac only), Docker Kitematic, and VirtualBox. The Docker Toolbox is an installer to quickly and easily install and setup a Docker environment on your computer. Select the installer for Mac.
If you are using Docker Toolbox, your images and containers can typically coexist together. This is thanks to Docker Toolbox using VirtualBox to host images and containers, and installing command line tools to more “Linux” path locations. Both Docker for Mac and Windows are fully native to the host platform and install everything into.
MacOS
Docker for Mac is best installed with Homebrew and Homebrew Cask. For other ways to install on MacOS, see Install Docker for Mac in Docker's docs.
Arch Linux
Docker is available in Arch Linux's repositories. Also see Docker in ArchWiki.
Ubuntu
docker.io
is available from the Ubuntu repositories (as of Xenial).docker.io
package isn't available for you, see Get Docker CE for Ubuntu for an alternative.Windows
Install Windows Subsystem for Linux and choose Ubuntu as your guest OS. Install Docker as you normally would on Ubuntu (see above). After that, see these instructions for info on how to get it running.
Other OS's
For other operating systems, see: https://www.docker.com/community-edition#download
Verifying if it works
If everything works, you should have the following commands available:
Starting Docker
If you get an error like the one below, you might need to start the Docker daemon.
To start the Docker daemon, it probably needs one of these commands
Enabling on startup
For Arch Linux, Ubuntu and CentOS, this will enable auto-starting of the Docker service:
Where I work we are still on Windows 7 development machines which means we can’t use Docker for Windows - Windows 10 is required. Luckily there is Docker Toolbox, the “Legacy desktop solution” for systems that don’t meet the minimum requirements. Here a small Linux VM is spun up which will host Docker. I spent a couple days getting it set up and configuring it to work in my company. This post details the steps and workarounds I took.
Installing Docker Toolbox
The Docker Toolbox on Windows page provides the download link and installation instructions. The pre-requisites are:
- Your machine must have a 64-bit operating system running Windows 7 or higher
- Virtualization must be enabled on your machine (BIOS setting; I had to get my helpdesk to do this since my PC is not located anywhere near my desk)
Once installed, you fire up the Docker Quickstart Terminal.
![Docker toolbox windows 10 Docker toolbox windows 10](/uploads/1/3/3/6/133695626/843913326.png)
Boom!
Getting the Boot2Docker ISO image
I think the issue is that the quickstart terminal doesn’t have access through the corporate firewall so is unable to locate the ISO. A forum post gives a workaround:
- Download the latest boot2docker image from https://github.com/boot2docker/boot2docker/releases (v18.01.0-ce for me)
- Save it to the Docker local cache in
c:userUSERNAME.dockermachinecache
Success!
VM proxy settings
Next up, run the hello world sample:
Oh dear! It’s the proxy server again. But this time its the new boot2docker VM that can’t get through. Google to the rescue!
I chose the option of editing the config within the VM, rather than supplying parameters. YMMV. What I did:
docker-machine ssh
to get a terminal session in the VMsudo vi /var/lib/boot2docker/profile
to edit the profile settings with write access- Add settings for
HTTP_PROXY
andHTTPS_PROXY
:export HTTP_PROXY=user:[email protected]:8080
sudo /etc/init.d/docker restart
to restart the VM docker service and pick up the new settingsexit
to leave the VM terminal session
Try again:
After much googling I came across the solution: the docker terminal didn’t have the correct environment variables set. See the Docker toolbox troubleshooting page for details.Reset them with
$ eval $('C:Program FilesDocker Toolboxdocker-machine.exe' env)
, then try again.Install Docker Toolbox
Bingo! We now have a working Docker toolbox!