It takes about 30 seconds to install with brew and another ~80 seconds to boot the required host (linux virtual machine).Īn example configuration using Script steps to install and start docker-toolkit: -ĭocker-machine create -driver 'virtualbox' default That said, if you need Docker on the Mac stacks, it’s definitely possible to install and use it. The standard Docker is built on Linux (kernel) technologies. Why does docker consume resources? Because Docker on the Mac uses a virtualized Linux to run the docker commands, as there is no native Mac support in docker. If an iOS build doesn’t need Docker, the resources consumed by Docker are a waste. Other than the stability / deprecation issue resource constraints are also a factor. docker-machine) and does not with Docker for Mac. The older Docker Toolkit does work, but it’s marked as semi-deprecated, although there are still quite a few docker tools which only work with that (e.g. Why we don’t plan to preinstall it (for now): as discussed in How to use your own Docker image for your builds Docker for Mac, which is the current preferred official solution, doesn’t really work in a virtualized environment and has some other issues too. For now we don’t plan to preinstall docker on the Mac stacks, but if this request gets enough votes we’ll definitely consider it.

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