![]() Installing & Running Your First Container ![]() You can read more about Docker for Mac & Windows here: Docker for Mac & Docker for Windows. This is is a much thinner layer than using VirtualBox or VMWare and has been tailor made for Docker workloads on Windows or Mac… great for development! No more VM or VirtualBox required! Depending on your OS, Docker for Mac/Windows works directly with the underlying operating system’s hypervisor stack (Hyper-V on Windows, xhyve on OSX). What Docker did was create a native application that ran on either Mac or Windows and made the part of hosting the engine for you transparent. It works just fine but Docker wanted to improve on the story. ![]() Its a bit cumbersome and uses up extra resources on your machine to run some host process. Typically you install virtualization software like Hyper-V (on Windows), VMWare or if you follow their Getting Started pages, you download VirtualBox and host Docker on a Linux VM. Let’s say you’re on your laptop, how do you get up and running? That’s presently supported on either Linux or the latest preview of Windows Server 2016 (Tech Preview 5). Today, to run Docker containers, you need to have the Docker engine running. ![]() I had forgotten I had applied to be part of the private beta a few weeks / months ago so it was quite the pleasant surprise. Last night I got a little surprise: an email invitation to the beta for Docker for Mac that included an invite code.
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