Setting up a Docker container environment on your local machine is extremely useful to play and understand the working of the technology without incurring cost of the cloud or another Linux machine.īefore i jump in to the details, i want to emphasize the fact that containers is a Linux technology and we can run it only on a Linux machine. Mac is used heavily by developers and hence is an important platform when it comes to testing/running tools like containers. My goal is to help the readers understand what is happening behind the scenes when you run containers on Mac. In this post i would detail how Docker containers run on Mac. In my previous post, i described the container ecosystem from a top level view. There is enthusiasm from both the enterprise and the developers.
Docker is currently amongst the most important projects on github.
