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Docker for Mac

Requirements

  • brew

Consider to using the official documentation

Installation

Docker & Docker Compose

Docker for Mac is GUI tool and requires the CASK option in brew

# installing Docker via brew using '--cask'
$ brew install --cask docker

Autostart

Create a daemon file in /Library/LaunchDaemons named as something.plist

docker-daemon.plist
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>docker-daemon.plist</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
        <string>/usr/local/bin/dockerd</string>
        <string>-H</string>
        <string>tcp://127.0.0.1:2375</string>
        <string>-H</string>
        <string>unix:///var/run/docker.sock</string>
    </array>
    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
    <true/>
    <key>KeepAlive</key>
    <true/>
</dict>
</plist>
# now enable and start the newly created file
> launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/docker-daemon.plist
> launchctl enable system/docker-daemon.plist
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