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dockerboot2docker

How do I use docker from local to a remote machine?

I've noticed that boot2docker runs docker on a VM as a deamon on port 2375. Then I use local Mac OS X 'docker' command and it executes all calls on VM.

These are the commands I use:

boot2docker start
export DOCKER_HOST=tcp://:2375

And then 'docker images' (for example) is running on VM.

How can I do the same with a physical machine rather then VM?

Solution

  • boot2docker is meant to be for dev purpose. It will spawn a VM. For bare metal, simply install docker on the host and start the docker daemon with docker -d -H tcp://0.0.0.0:4243. WARNING: This is very dangerous. Anyone will have root access to your host. In order to secure this, you should change 0.0.0.0 to 127.0.0.1 and either use a SSH tunnel or a nginx/apache frontend with authentification.

    On you mac, then just export DOCKER_HOST=tcp://<host ip>:4243