docker-machine create

create

Create a machine. Requires the --driver flag to indicate which provider (VirtualBox, DigitalOcean, AWS, etc.) the machine should be created on, and an argument to indicate the name of the created machine.

$ docker-machine create --driver virtualbox dev
Creating CA: /home/username/.docker/machine/certs/ca.pem
Creating client certificate: /home/username/.docker/machine/certs/cert.pem
Image cache does not exist, creating it at /home/username/.docker/machine/cache...
No default boot2docker iso found locally, downloading the latest release...
Downloading https://github.com/boot2docker/boot2docker/releases/download/v1.6.2/boot2docker.iso to /home/username/.docker/machine/cache/boot2docker.iso...
Creating VirtualBox VM...
Creating SSH key...
Starting VirtualBox VM...
Starting VM...
To see how to connect Docker to this machine, run: docker-machine env dev

Accessing driver-speci