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Homebrew Docker Virtualbox (But not VirtualBox only)

This formula resolves the Docker issue on AMD based MacOS (Ryzentosh). Also can be used on any Mac.

PLEASE READ FIRST THE NOTICE: https://gist.github.com/slykar/e92732be9bf81a71e08068245656d70e?permalink_comment_id=4105556#gistcomment-4105556

Installation

Install Virtualbox from Oracle website

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads.

Please don't forget to remove all previous installations.
This step required only if you want to use VirtualBox driver, otherwise see below how to start with another driver.

Virtualbox 6.1.28+ Note

Due the changes of virtualbox networking, you need to allow docker-machine host in order to use 192.168.99.0/8 network. More Details

Add this line into /etc/vbox/networks.conf

* 192.168.99.0/8

Install the docker-virtualbox via Homebrew

brew tap sergeycherepanov/docker-virtualbox
brew install docker-virtualbox

Configure the docker-virtualbox requirements

WARNING: Only this commands requires root permissions, all next should be run under your user

Ensure the NFS exports file exists

sudo touch /etc/exports

Allow the staff group to configure NFS shares and run the balancer without a password prompt

sudo tee /etc/sudoers.d/docker-machine-nfs <<SUDOERS
%staff ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /sbin/nfsd
%staff ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /bin/cp /etc/nfs.conf /etc/nfs.conf.bak
%staff ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/tee /etc/exports
%staff ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/tee /etc/nfs.conf
%staff ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: $(brew --prefix)/opt/docker-virtualbox/bin/gobetween
SUDOERS

Reboot your system to be sure that sudoers applied

Configure the environment

If you didn't install Docker for Mac you can link binaries instead of PATH update

brew link --force --overwrite docker-virtualbox

Otherwise configure the PATH variable

# For the bash
echo "export PATH=\"$(brew --prefix docker-virtualbox)/bin:\$PATH\"" >> ~/.bash_profile
# For the zsh
echo "export PATH=\"$(brew --prefix docker-virtualbox)/bin:\$PATH\"" >> ~/.zshrc

Reload the shell

exec $SHELL

Initialize the docker machine

In the first run according to the permissions policy you need to run it manually and approve permissions.

docker-machine-init initialize

This is will download, create and configure the VirtualBox-based machine if the machine was not configured before. If the machine was created manually this will only set up NFS mount.

Start the docker-virtualbox service

When initialization will be finished you are ready to enable the service

The log file will be always available in /tmp/docker-virtualbox.log.

brew services start docker-virtualbox

Verify installation

Test the Docker by running Nginx

docker run -d -p 8989:80 nginx
curl -v localhost:8989

Additional information

If you don't want to use the VirtualBox as docker-machine driver you need to create a machine manually before initialization by similar command:

docker-machine create --driver generic --generic-ip-address=192.168.24.108 --generic-ssh-user=developer --generic-ssh-key=$HOME/.ssh/id_rsa docker

Please note the docker-machine-nfs plugin supports only Debian based Linux as the target system. For more information read the documentation

Read the log when the docker doesn't work properly

tail -n 1000 -f /tmp/docker-virtualbox.log

SSH connection to the docker-machine

docker-machine ssh docker

To stop the service just run

brew services stop docker-virtualbox

To setup environment for 3rd party tools (ctop as example)

source /tmp/docker-virtualbox.env
source /tmp/docker-virtualbox-machine.env

Known issues

  1. The system won't sleep when the NFS server runs
  2. The port forwarding doesn't work for UDP proto (improvement needed)