docker-osx

That's pretty much it. Just two different approaches to the same thing. I use docker-osx (https://github.com/noplay/docker-osx) instead of boot2loader. Didn't run into any weird virtualization issues with it. The format for the fig.yml file is even very similar to that of your VagrantFile (https://gist.github.com/ChrisChares/66916dd6dc0d5828520a)

Currently docker can only mount folders from the host VM into your container. On OS X your host will most likely be VirtualBox. Thus you need to sync the folders from your mac into the VM, and from there into docker. The hack that docker-osx (https://github.com/noplay/docker-osx) uses has been very effective for me. Basically it mounts your user directory into the vagrant VM at the same path. From there, you can bind-mount any folder in your home directory easily via something like "docker run -i -t --rm -v $(pwd):/srv ubuntu /bin/bash".

Been using this for a while now for Django development, it's really simplified the way I work. When I want to start work on a project: fig up -d db fig up -d redis fig up web One of the main benefits for me using fig/docker is that I only have a single VM on my machine, rather than one for each project. I usually just leave it running in the background. Combined with docker-osx https://github.com/noplay/docker-osx I don't even need to ssh into my VM to start work.

Awesome that OSX support is now official, but is there any benefit to using this process as opposed to using docker-osx? https://github.com/noplay/docker-osx The official installation process seems more complicated, and I don't really see an advantage.

Yeah, having a Darwin build of the docker client is useful but it's only the first step in our OSX support, we need to add a few more things before "zero to docker" feels really seamless on a Mac. Specifically we need to bundle a lightweight VM [1], automate a headless virtualbox/vmware setup [2], wrap it all in a DMG and homebrew recipe, then do it all as part of docker's release flow. When that's ready we'll overhaul the docs. [1] Probably with the awesome http://github.com/steeve/boot2docker [2] A possible candidate is http://github.com/noplay/docker-osx if they change a few things, namely expose the native binary instead of wrapping it, and remove the dependency on vagrant which is overkill for a hardcoded image. The boot2docker folks are also working on something similar, maybe they can collaborate.

Will be useful with this script hiding a VM running Docker. https://github.com/noplay/docker-osx

Yep, just added folder sharing: https://github.com/noplay/docker-osx/commit/a7470f9f583cfdad... We're interested in using boot2docker for docker-osx too. Ubuntu is unnecessarily heavyweight for just running Docker.