Absolutely, you can boot your preferred distribution for running Docker on[1] (using Vagrant even! setting the provider to VirtualBox), forward the port that Do

Absolutely, you can boot your preferred distribution for running Docker on[1] (using Vagrant even! setting the provider to VirtualBox), forward the port that Docker is running on (2376?) to your physical host/localhost[2], and set a few variables on the client machine to get your docker client talking to that ("remote") docker daemon[3] [1]: https://coreos.com/os/docs/latest/booting-on-vagrant.html https://coreos.com/os/docs/latest/booting-on-vagrant.html [2]: https://www.vagrantup.com/docs/networking/forwarded_ports.html https://www.vagrantup.com/docs/networking/forwarded_ports.ht... [3]: https://docs.docker.com/machine/reference/env/ https://docs.docker.com/machine/reference/env/ Or, as tmzt mentioned, minikube and minishift will also let you set --vm-driver=virtualbox on start. Those are nice even if you don't want to use Kubernetes (but there are plenty of options.)