Switch to boot2docker as recommended way to run Docker on OS X

[bfirsh]

Probably blocked by boot2docker/boot2docker#63, boot2docker/boot2docker#84 and boot2docker/boot2docker#85.

See julien-duponchelle/docker-osx#17 and julien-duponchelle/docker-osx#29 for more background.

[bfirsh]

https://github.com/fnichol/dvm could also be an alternative, but suffers from the same shortcomings as boot2docker.

[dduportal]

Here are my first tries bringin up fig into bootdocker :

• Standalone method (fetching the binary, chmoding and calling)

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| |__   ___   ___ | |_|___ \ __| | ___   ___| | _____ _ __
| '_ \ / _ \ / _ \| __| __) / _` |/ _ \ / __| |/ / _ \ '__|
| |_) | (_) | (_) | |_ / __/ (_| | (_) | (__|   <  __/ |
|_.__/ \___/ \___/ \__|_____\__,_|\___/ \___|_|\_\___|_|
boot2docker: 0.6.0
docker@boot2docker:~$ curl -L https://github.com/orchardup/fig/releases/download/0.3.1/linux > fig
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100   332  100   332    0     0    529      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--   534
100 4979k  100 4979k    0     0  1068k      0  0:00:04  0:00:04 --:--:-- 1325k
docker@boot2docker:~$ ls -ltr
total 4980
-rw-r--r--    1 docker   staff      5099163 Mar  5 14:06 fig
docker@boot2docker:~$ chmod +x fig
docker@boot2docker:~$ echo $PATH
/home/docker/.local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/apps/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
docker@boot2docker:~$ mv fig /home/docker/.local/bin/
docker@boot2docker:~$ which fig
/home/docker/.local/bin/fig
docker@boot2docker:~$ /home/docker/.local/bin/fig --version
-sh: /home/docker/.local/bin/fig: not found
docker@boot2docker:~$ fig --version
docker@boot2docker:~$

• Second method with pip package :

docker@boot2docker:~$ rm -rf /home/docker/.local/bin/fig
# Installing python into boot2docker with TCZ package
docker@boot2docker:~$ wget http://www.tinycorelinux.net/5.x/x86/tcz/python.tcz && tce-load -i python.tcz && rm -f python.tcz
python.tcz           100% |****************************************************************************|  8892k  0:00:00 ETA
python.tcz: OK
docker@boot2docker:~$ python --version
Python 2.7.6
# Installing setup tools
docker@boot2docker:~$ curl -LO https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/raw/bootstrap/ez_setup.py && sudo /usr/local/bin/python2.7 ez_setup.py && rm ez_setup.py
<bunch of lines>
# Installing pip
docker@boot2docker:~$ sudo /usr/local/bin/easy_install-2.7 pip
# Installing fig
docker@boot2docker:~$ sudo /usr/local/bin/pip2.7 install -U fig
<bunc of lines>
# Go Go !
docker@boot2docker:~$ fig --version
docker@boot2docker:~$

In both cases, no output are given by the new fig :-(
I successfully tried the 2nd method with a < 3.x version of fig, it was working very well.

[bfirsh]

It's probably not worth trying to get Fig running inside the boot2docker VM itself – you can run it outside on OS X and point it at the remote API.

[dduportal]

Yeah, the point is that i'm not on OS X :-)
My goal is to bring docker dev env into Win 7/8 x64, with Vagrant + VirtualBox + boot2docker + fig, using sharing folders + git/hg + NAT resolving.

Maybe Docker guys will push a Windows CLI someday :-)

[bfirsh]

Ahah – got you, sorry. VirtualBox + Ubuntu might work better. boot2docker is meant to be nothing more than a hypervisor.

[dduportal]

Yeah, i was expecting a very very light docker dev VM : i'm going to only run fig + docker into this Linux box, and a <30 Mb box was an awesome path for me (instead of a big ubuntu or centos box :-) ).

Any plan to support fig on Windows ?

[bfirsh]

No plans currently! Open to pull requests, and it might be something we look into ourselves if there's enough demand.

[bfirsh]

More details on current state of this:

boot2docker/boot2docker#284
https://github.com/boot2docker/boot2docker/blob/master/doc/WORKAROUNDS.md

[SvenDowideit]

If anyone's looking into boot2docker and fig, The idea of boot2docker is that the host's filesystem is essentially read only. Everything should be in a container - so rather than installing fig into the boot2docker host, create a fig container which you run with a bindmounted docker exe, and access to a docker socket.

[bfirsh]

This works great with Fig: https://medium.com/boot2docker-lightweight-linux-for-docker/boot2docker-together-with-virtualbox-guest-additions-da1e3ab2465c

[bfirsh]

In summary, install the boot2docker installer, then run:

$ mkdir ~/.boot2docker
$ curl http://static.dockerfiles.io/boot2docker-v1.0.0-virtualbox-guest-additions-v4.3.12.iso > ~/.boot2docker/boot2docker.iso
$ boot2docker init
$ VBoxManage sharedfolder add boot2docker-vm -name home -hostpath /Users
$ boot2docker up

You can add a boot2docker host to /etc/hosts:

$ sudo sh -c "echo `boot2docker -m 123 ssh ip addr show eth1 |sed -ne 's/^[ \t]*inet[ \t]*\([0-9.]*\)\/.*$/\1/p'` boot2docker >> /etc/hosts"

To set up your shell to automatically connect Fig and Docker to boot2docker, set DOCKER_HOST in .bashrc:

$ echo export DOCKER_HOST=tcp://`boot2docker -m 123 ssh ip addr show eth1 |sed -ne 's/^[ \t]*inet[ \t]*\([0-9.]*\)\/.*$/\1/p'`:2375 >> .bashrc

[b00gizm]

@bfirsh

Doesn't work for me. Volumes still won't show up.

/edit: And besides that: Pulling images with boot2docker is really slow compared to docker-osx. Any idea what's wrong?