Create a Docker Machine

You can use Docker Machine to provision a new host, or to connect to an existing host. In either case, the result will be a "machine" configured on your local workstation or laptop that represents the remote host. After you activate the machine on your local workstation, when you run docker commands locally, Docker Machine will execute them on the remote host for you.

Provision a new host

Docker Machine can provision new hosts on various platforms using one of its supported drivers. When provisioning a host, Docker Machine will automatically install the latest version of Docker Engine on the host. It will also generate local TLS certificate and key files to connect to the host and authenticate with the docker daemon on the host.

In the following example, we provision a new virtual server on IBM SoftLayer. (You can provision similarly on RackSpace, AWS, and other hosting providers). We set DRIVER_OPTS to the SoftLayer-specific options.

# Set Docker Machine SoftLayer driver options
export DRIVER_OPTS="--driver softlayer \
  --softlayer-api-key <my_softlayer_api_key> \
  --softlayer-user <my_softlayer_username> \
  --softlayer-domain mydomain \
  --softlayer-cpu 16 \
  --softlayer-memory 65536 \
  --softlayer-disk-size 100 \
  --softlayer-region wdc01"

# Create a machine named jupyterhub
docker-machine create $DRIVER_OPTS jupyterhub

Connect to an existing host

This example configures a "machine" on your local workstation that connects to an existing remote host at IP address 10.0.0.10. To do this, you must use Docker Machine's generic driver, and your local workstation must have a private SSH key that allows you to perform password-less login to the host.

Substitute your own IP address and path to SSH key in the DRIVER_OPTS below. Note that when you run the docker-machine create command, Docker Machine will install and configure the latest Docker Engine on the remote host (or upgrade the Docker Engine on the host if it is already installed).

# Use the generic driver to create a Docker machine that
# controls the Docker daemon on an existing host
export DRIVER_OPTS="--driver generic \
  --generic-ip-address 10.0.0.10 \
  --generic-ssh-key /Users/jtyberg/.ssh/myhost_rsa.pem"

# Create a machine named jupyterhub
docker-machine create $DRIVER_OPTS jupyterhub

Activate Docker Machine

You must set specific DOCKER_* environment variables to tell docker that it should run commands against a particular machine. The remainder of this document assumes that the machine called jupyterhub is active, and therefore, all docker commands will run on the jupyterhub remote host.

To set the jupyterhub machine as active:

eval "$(docker-machine env jupyterhub)"

All this does is set the right environment variables:

env|grep DOCKER

DOCKER_HOST=tcp://10.0.0.10:2376
DOCKER_MACHINE_NAME=jupyterhub
DOCKER_TLS_VERIFY=1
DOCKER_CERT_PATH=/Users/jtyberg/.docker/machine/machines/jupyterhub

To see which machine is active:

docker-machine active

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