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Lightweight Docker experience on OSX

31 points by zaiste 13y ago

huslage 13y ago
The problem is that you still need VirtualBox AND Linux. I don't see how this is lighter weight...other than a 24MB image instead of a 160MB image.
- quarterto 13y ago
  I'm guessing you haven't heard of TinyCore Linux[0] before. It's tiny. It fits entirely in RAM and boots in 5 seconds on 10-year-old hardware. [0]: http://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/ http://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/
  - jbverschoor 13y ago
    Still need virtualbox.
- zimbatm 13y ago
  I think the author meant light weight in terms of usage complexity, not system resources.
dergachev 13y ago
Hmm this replaces Vagrant (which I know and like) with a custom script (https://raw.github.com/steeve/boot2docker/master/boot2docker https://raw.github.com/steeve/boot2docker/master/boot2docker) which I have to learn. Also running docker on a non-ubuntu host means you're doing it differently than 95% of people out there, so you'll be on your own when it comes to mysterious errors and the like. In case you're feeling brave, here's an anecdote from just this morning. My colleague ran into a mysql bug on docker he couldn't figure out. Googling the error messsage + "docker" instantly produced this page http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21026790/cant-delete-mysql-database-table-or-even-alter-table-inside-docker http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21026790/cant-delete-mysq... where it was explained that by using ubuntu 13.10 instead of 12.04 would make the problem go away... saving us many hours of further debugging. What good would that advice do if we were using TinyCore Linux?
- brown9-2 13y ago
  But isn't one of the promises of docker that you can use the same package regardless of underlying OS?
migrantgeek 13y ago
My lightweight experience is a little different. I didn't want to run a VM on my MacBook Air and I already run VMs locally on my Mac Mini so an alias to the Ubuntu VM on my mini lets me run the Docker client without anything else on my Air. alias docker='docker -H=tcp://10.0.5.3:5555' A DynDNS + NAT rule on my router lets me connect when I'm not home.

31 points by zaiste 13y ago

The problem is that you still need VirtualBox AND Linux. I don't see how this is lighter weight...other than a 24MB image instead of a 160MB image.

quarterto 13y ago
I'm guessing you haven't heard of TinyCore Linux[0] before. It's tiny. It fits entirely in RAM and boots in 5 seconds on 10-year-old hardware. [0]: http://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/ http://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/
- jbverschoor 13y ago
  Still need virtualbox.
zimbatm 13y ago
I think the author meant light weight in terms of usage complexity, not system resources.

dergachev 13y ago

Hmm this replaces Vagrant (which I know and like) with a custom script (https://raw.github.com/steeve/boot2docker/master/boot2docker https://raw.github.com/steeve/boot2docker/master/boot2docker) which I have to learn. Also running docker on a non-ubuntu host means you're doing it differently than 95% of people out there, so you'll be on your own when it comes to mysterious errors and the like. In case you're feeling brave, here's an anecdote from just this morning. My colleague ran into a mysql bug on docker he couldn't figure out. Googling the error messsage + "docker" instantly produced this page http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21026790/cant-delete-mysql-database-table-or-even-alter-table-inside-docker http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21026790/cant-delete-mysq... where it was explained that by using ubuntu 13.10 instead of 12.04 would make the problem go away... saving us many hours of further debugging. What good would that advice do if we were using TinyCore Linux?

brown9-2 13y ago
But isn't one of the promises of docker that you can use the same package regardless of underlying OS?

migrantgeek 13y ago

My lightweight experience is a little different. I didn't want to run a VM on my MacBook Air and I already run VMs locally on my Mac Mini so an alias to the Ubuntu VM on my mini lets me run the Docker client without anything else on my Air. alias docker='docker -H=tcp://10.0.5.3:5555' A DynDNS + NAT rule on my router lets me connect when I'm not home.