mac os-x vmware fusion vagrantfile to setup a docker host.

This collection of files will help you to run docker on a vmware fusion guesti vm.

I have created this because boot2docker and friends dont work with vmware fusion (for me)

Features:

ensures /vagrant mount
maps /data to /vagrant/data/$HOSTNAME/
persistent docker storeage on mac host disk via /data/docker/$docker-container-name/
saves network ip address to /data/state/$ifname
saves list of interfaces to /data/state/interfaces
accepts environment var APT_CACHER to set apt-cacher:port
configure docker to listen to network and state file

Requirements:

Instructions

Fetch Repo:

git clone github.com/rednut/vmware-fusion-vagrant-docker.git

Launch a vmware fusion guest using Vagrant:

BOXNAME=docker1 vagrant up --provider=vmware_fusion

Once you finished, the vagrant status should show the box running:

vagrant status

Grab from the output the vagrant provisoning the ip address of the new docker host and export it so we can use it later

echo "x.y.z.s" > ~/.docker-ip
export DOCKER_IP=`cat ~/.docker-ip`

or

export DOCKER_IP=x.y.z.s

We should then be able to talk to the docker daemon running in the vmware box aka the dockerhost:

docker -H tcp://$DOCKERIP:4243 ps

I like to setup a shell alias like:

alias dockr='docker -H tcp://$DOCKER_IP:4243'

so i can just run

dockr ps

instead of

docker -H tcp://$DOCKER_IP:4243 images

i Pulldown a mongo docker image:

dockr pull dockerfile/mongodb

Start new container running the mongodb:

as a daemon (-d)
map docker volume (-v) in vm folder /data/docker/mongodb to container path /data
map port (-p) 28017 on docker host to 28017 in container

cmd:

dockr run -d -v /data/docker/mongodb:/data -p 27017:27017 -p 28017:28017 dockerfile/mongodb

This will map the mongodb database path to data/docker1/docker/mongodb

ls -l data/docker1/docker/mongodb

You will be able to connect to the mongo database via address $DOCKER_IP on the ports that were mapped earlier