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Using Vagrant

Please note this is a community contributed installation path. The only ‘official’ installation is using the Ubuntu Linux installation path. This version may sometimes be out of date.

Requirements: This guide will setup a new virtual machine with docker installed on your computer. This works on most operating systems, including MacOX, Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and others. If you can install these and have at least 400Mb RAM to spare you should be good.

Install Vagrant and Virtualbox

  1. Install virtualbox from https://www.virtualbox.org/ (or use your package manager)
  2. Install vagrant from http://www.vagrantup.com/ (or use your package manager)
  3. Install git if you had not installed it before, check if it is installed by running git in a terminal window

Spin it up

  1. Fetch the docker sources (this includes the Vagrantfile for machine setup).

    git clone https://github.com/dotcloud/docker.git

  2. Run vagrant from the sources directory

    vagrant up

    Vagrant will:

    • Download the ‘official’ Precise64 base ubuntu virtual machine image from vagrantup.com
    • Boot this image in virtualbox
    • Add the Docker PPA sources to /etc/apt/sources.lst
    • Update your sources
    • Install lxc-docker

    You now have a Ubuntu Virtual Machine running with docker pre-installed.

Connect

To access the VM and use Docker, Run vagrant ssh from the same directory as where you ran vagrant up. Vagrant will connect you to the correct VM.

vagrant ssh

Run

Now you are in the VM, run docker

docker

Continue with the Hello World example.