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1.6 Installing Docker on OS X Using Docker Toolbox | 7

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Figure 1-1. The Docker Toolbox on OS X
The Toolbox terminal shows you that the Docker client is configured to use the
default
machine. Try a few 
docker
commands as shown here:
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docker is configured to use the default machine with IP 192.168.99.100
For help getting started, check out the docs at https://docs.docker.com
bash-4.3$ docker ps
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
bash-4.3$ docker images
REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED VIRTUAL SIZE
bash-4.3$ docker
docker docker-compose docker-machine
You see that the 
docker-machine
and 
docker-compose
binaries are also available to
you.
8 | Chapter 1: Getting Started with Docker

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Discussion
The Docker Toolbox was introduced in Docker 1.8 and should be the default installa‐
tion method on OS X and Windows hosts. Prior to the Docker Toolbox, you could
use 
Boot2Docker
 (see 
Recipe 1.7
 and 
Recipe 1.8
). Recipes for 
Boot2Docker
are also in
this book, but Docker Toolbox should be used. In fact, 
Boot2Docker
is still used in
Toolbox, as it is the image of the virtual machine started by the Toolbox. You can see
this by using the 
docker-machine ssh
command to log in to the VM as shown here:
bash-4.3$ docker-machine ssh default
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| |__ ___ ___ | |_|___ \ __| | ___ ___| | _____ _ __
| '_ \ / _ \ / _ \| __| __) / _` |/ _ \ / __| |/ / _ \ '__|
| |_) | (_) | (_) | |_ / __/ (_| | (_) | (__| < __/ |
|_.__/ \___/ \___/ \__|_____\__,_|\___/ \___|_|\_\___|_|
Boot2Docker version 1.8.1, build master : 7f12e95 - Thu Aug 13 03:24:56 UTC 2015
Docker version 1.8.1, build d12ea79