3-docker-machine.md

Docker Machine

• Manage VMs
• CLI based
• Cloud-Enabled (Google, AWS, OpenStack, etc.)

CLI - docker-machine --help

• Create VMs
  • Local
  • Google Cloud
• Set Environment
• SSH
• Remove VMs

Create VMs

Local Driver

docker-machine create --driver virtualbox \
  workshop

eval $(docker-machine env workshop)

Google Cloud Driver

1. Create a Google Service Account

Download to $HOME/gce-credentials.json.

export GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=$HOME/gce-credentials.json

2. Activate Google Cloud APIs (Google Compute Engine, Google Docker Registry)

3. Configure Docker Machine

docker-machine create --driver google \
  --google-machine-type g1-small \
  --google-zone europe-west4-a \
  --google-project workshops-mikebild \
  workshop-01

List

docker-machine ls

Set Environment

eval $(docker-machine env workshop-01)

SSH

docker-machine ssh workshop-01

Remove VMs

docker-machine rm workshop-01

docker-machine rm workshop workshop-01