Docker Machine

It is a tool thats lets you install Docker Engine on virtual hosts.

It creates servers, installs docker and then configures the docker client to take to them.


Linux :

ubuntu@ip-192.33.33.22:~$ docker-machine ls
docker-machine: command not found

Install docker machine

$ curl -L https://github.com/docker/machine/releases/download/v0.12.1/docker-machine-`uname -s`-`uname -m` >/tmp/docker-machine &&
chmod +x /tmp/docker-machine &&
sudo cp /tmp/docker-machine /usr/local/bin/docker-machine

  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100   617    0   617    0     0    428      0 --:--:--  0:00:01 --:--:--   428
100 25.1M  100 25.1M    0     0   490k      0  0:00:52  0:00:52 --:--:-- 1211k

ubuntu@ip-192.33.33.22:~$ docker-machine version
docker-machine version 0.12.1, build c8b17e8

Example :

$ docker-machine create -d digitalocean --digitalocean-access-token=secret dev

$ docker-machine ls

NAME      ACTIVE   DRIVER       STATE     URL                         SWARM   DOCKER   ERRORS

dev   -          digitalocean   Running   tcp://253.1.113.91:4366             v1.8.9