Virtual machine (VM) is assigned an IP address when the boot2docker processes get started.

In Mac OS X, the address of Linux virtual machine is the Docker host’s address. In Mac OS X installation, docker daemon runs inside virtual machine of Linux supported by Boot2Docker. The Docker container ports can be addressed with the help of local host address. In traditional Linux installation, Docker daemon, Docker client and the Docker containers will run on the local host. The Docker host is the system where the Docker containers are running. Local host is your own system according to networking terminology. Key Features to Be Known Before Installationĭuring Docker installation in Linux kernel, your system acts as both Docker host and the local host. In order for Boot2Docker to run, your Mac OS must have OS X 10.6 version called ‘Snow Leopard” or even more recent. The VirtualBox is just around 24 Megabytes of download which gets booted in less time like 5 seconds. From the main memory RAM, VirtualBox’s Virtual machine runs. The Boot2Docker application has the advantage of Linux virtual machine’s light weight nature mainly for running Docker daemon on the operating system, Mac OS X. This tool has VirtualBox or Virtual Machine (VM). There is another alternative application called ‘Kitematic’ which allows you in installing Docker and to run containers using GUI or graphical user interface.īoot2Docker along with Command-line Dockerĭocker cannot be run natively in OS X as Linux specific features are adopted by Docker daemon. If you are familiar with command-line, you can choose this kind of installation else you can choose Docker project from GitHub.

Docker can be installed by Boot2Docker mainly for running docker commands in the command-line.

Installing docker on mac os x