Docker Tutorial

Let's try out Docker!

First things first - Install Docker

Ubuntu

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install docker.io
$ sudo ln -sf /usr/bin/docker.io /usr/local/bin/docker
# optional
$ sudo sed -i '$acomplete -F _docker docker' /etc/bash_completion.d/docker.io

For the bleeding edge versions, see the documentation.

Mac

brew install boot2docker docker
boot2docker init
boot2docker up

Windows

Follow the steps described in the documentation.

Further reads

• Docker Dockumentation
• How is Docker.io different from a normal virtual machine?
• LXC - Linux Containers
• Docker is the heroku killer
• DockerHUB