Machine Overview
Docker Machine Overview
You can use Docker Machine to:
- Install and run Docker on Mac or Windows
- Provision and manage multiple remote Docker hosts
- Provision Swarm clusters
What is Docker Machine?
Docker Machine is a tool that lets you install Docker Engine on virtual hosts, and manage the hosts with docker-machine
commands. You can use Machine to create Docker hosts on your local Mac or Windows box, on your company network, in your data center, or on cloud providers like AWS or Digital Ocean.
Using docker-machine
commands, you can start, inspect, stop, and restart a managed host, upgrade the Docker client and daemon, and configure a Docker client to talk to your host.
Point the Machine CLI at a running, managed host, and you can run docker
commands directly on that host. For example, run docker-machine env d