Setting up a Docker context

Introduction

For using Docker on Mac m1, i tried to find many startegies to continue using my backend-enviroenemnt like previously with a Mac x86_64.

First i tried to build docker-machine, docker, docker-compose with brew install --rebuild but unsuccessfully.

Then i tried to create a vm or use my old machine with ubuntu server with docker installed, but i will not put all my backend-end app on the vm because this app is under developpement, so here i replaced just my docker-machine with my virtual-box.

Still i need to have docker and docker-compose installed on my Mac m1.

In this case i used this step to install docker from scratch and about docker-compose you can use this step using pip3 instead of pip make sure you have a python3 installed on your Mac silicone.

Docker Context

The remaining steps are simple. We create a Docker context:

docker context create my-vm --docker "host=ssh://ubuntu@192.168.1.37"

And tell Docker to use it

docker context use my-vm

Now all docker commands are targeting the virtual or physical machine, just like they do in Docker for Mac.

You can try it using:

docker ps

you will see sometings like that

CONTAINER ID        IMAGE               COMMAND             CREATED             STATUS              PORTS               NAMES

You can find out more about docker context in the online documentation