This post is mostly for my own reference. I’m still in the very early stages of understanding and using docker.

# The docker cli client app brew install docker # Tool for installing a docker machine (VM and or docker layer for holding containers (the whale)) brew install docker-machine # Create a local docker machine using virtualbox as the VM, call it 'dev' # Assuming this is where it gets clever as we can create docker machines for reference locally way off in the cloud docker-machine create --driver virtualbox dev # Nothing worked properly until I did this, not sure what it actually does, probably sets the active docker environment eval "$(docker-machine env dev)" # Pull down and register the whalesay container docker pull docker/whalesay # Run the cowsay command on the whalesay container with the argument 'boo' docker run docker/whalesay cowsay boo

Of course, this gets more interesting when you’re running redis, nginx etc.. Not sure about dockerfiles yet, probably fairly simple. Really not sure about deployment.