#Docker for mac faq install#
#Docker for mac faq password#

Inside the application is also the latest greatest Docker engine, and autoupdates to make it easy to keep uptodate.Īlthough the app only runs Linux containers at present, the Docker engine is gaining support for non-Linux containers, so expect to see updates in this space. We've also used some unikernel libaries from MirageOS to provide the filesystem and networking 'semantic translation' layers between OSX and Linux.

#Docker for mac faq password#

where some-mysql is the name you want to assign to your container, my-secret-pw is the password to be set for the MySQL root user and tag is the tag specifying the MySQL version you want. Most of the processes do not need root access and run as the user. Starting a MySQL instance is simple: docker run -name some-mysql -e MYSQLROOTPASSWORDmy-secret-pw -d mysql:tag. The filesystem sharing maps OSX volumes seamlessly into the Linux container and remaps MacOS X UIDs into Linux ones (no more permissions problems), and the networking publishes ports to either `docker.local` or `localhost` depending on the configuration.Ī lot of this only became possible in recent versions of OSX thanks to the amework that has been bundled, and the hard work of mist64 who released xhyve (in turn based on bhyve in FreeBSD) that uses it. On Linux however you can run 'ps aux' and see the processes directly.

In Windows/Mac, Docker runs in a mini-VM so to see the processes youll need to connect directly to that. Docker for Mac provides docker and docker-compose. Docker containers are often compared to virtual machines but they are actually just processes running on your host os. We will highlight the path to a peaceful coexistence. It is new with some limitations and potential conflicts with Outrigger. You just drag-and-drop the Mac application to /Applications, run it, and the Docker CLI just works. Docker for Mac is a native hypervisor implementation of Docker that does not rely on a virtual machine provided by Docker Machine. There would be a network endpoint on your Mac that pointed at the Linux VM, and the two worlds are quite separate.ĭocker for Mac is a native MacOS X application that embeds a hypervisor (based on xhyve), a Linux distribution and filesystem and network sharing that is much more Mac native. Docker is the only supported option if you are working on a Windows machine.

#Docker for mac faq install#

Previously in order to run Linux containers on a Mac, you needed to install VirtualBox and have an embedded Linux virtual machine that would run the Docker containers from the Mac CLI. Enabling USB2 with your docker installation will allow you to load your application on a supported device. Let me explain Docker for Mac in a little more detail.