Getting started.
- When on OS X boot2docker provides a VirtualBox VM virtual machine for Docker to run on. Initialize and start up boot2docker with
boot2docker init
boot2docker up
Export the resulting environment variables (DOCKER_HOST, DOCKER_CERT_PATH, DOCKER_TLS_VERIFY).
- Build the Docker container in the root path.
docker build -t foo:nginx_static .
- Run the container.
docker run -p 80:80 foo:nginx_static
- Grab the IP of the Docker host.
boot2docker ip
This should display the static html page.
You can now go on to commit the container to be re-used later. To that
end, get the container id with docker ps yielding, e.g. 61aa913398ca.
Then commit.
docker commit -m "Add nginx serving index.html file statically." 61aa913398ca foo:nginx_static
This will yield a length weired ting. Finally you can stop the docker container now.
docker kill 61aa913398ca