cygwin | docker
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download docker toolbox for win

https://www.docker.com/products/docker-toolbox

  • install to default location
  • copy docker.exe, docker-machine.exe, docker-compose.exe to your cygwin /usr/local/bin
  • uninstall docker toolbox for win

docker toolbox setting

1) make junction (directory hard link) for "Program Files", it will make easy to find VirtualBox tools

mklink /j  C:\Program_Files  "C:\Program Files"
Junction created for C:\Program_Files > C:\Program Files
mklink /j  C:\Program_Files_x86 "C:\Program Files (x86)"
Junction created for C:\Program_Files_x86 > C:\Program Files (x86)

2) place VirtualBox path in customized cygwin profile portabledevops_cygwin.sh under /etc/profile.d/

# portable docker toolbox for cygwin
export VBOX_MSI_INSTALL_PATH=/cygdrive/c/Program_Files/Oracle/VirtualBox/
export PATH=$VBOX_MSI_INSTALL_PATH:$PATH
alias dm=/usr/local/bin/docker-machine.exe
alias dc=/usr/local/bin/docker-compose.exe
denv(){
	eval $(docker-machine env "$@")
}
export -f denv

docker test

1) create new docker machine

$ dm create --driver virtualbox --virtualbox-hostonly-cidr "10.0.10.1/24" cygdemo 
$ dm start cygdemo

2) setup env for docker client access

$ denv cygdemo

denv only supports one machine, 0 or 2+ will get error as below:

$ denv
Error: No machine name(s) specified and no "default" machine exists.

$ denv a b
Error: Expected one machine name as an argument

3) docker client test

$ docker ps -a
$ docker info 
$ docker run -it hello-world

4) ssh to docker vm

$ dm ssh cygdemo