Running Docker on Mac

Tonight's mission - get an application from the day job up and running on one of my Macs at home...

So, Docker is designed to run on top of a Linux kernel - which Mac OS X obviously doesn't offer.

A quick Google leads to:
http://docs.docker.com/installation/mac/

which directs me to Boot2Docker :
https://github.com/boot2docker/osx-installer/releases

Open the downloaded package and double click to install the VM image

Binaries are now on the path and ready to run from a command line terminal:

> boot2docker init
> boot2docker start

Then the top secret bit for pulling down the Dockerised application...

Tweak the configuration properties to use the newly created Docker host instead of the hand-coded Linux environment's Docker configuration (host IP address).

Run the application's tests.

Let out a satisfied "Aaah" or "Mmm" (optional).

This all took about 20 minutes, but most of the time was spent waiting on downloads.