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Docker on Mac with Homebrew: A Step-by-Step Tutorial. Docker has changed the way developers work. It provides an easy way to safely move code from one machine to another without worrying about dependencies and server versions. The machine running the Docker server is called the Docker host. The host can be any machine—your laptop, a server in the Cloud™, etc—but, because Docker uses features only available to Linux, that machine must be running Linux (more specifically, the Linux kernel). For Mac/Windows, you will have to obtain the IP using following command: docker-machine ip default Tip: Docker Desktop for Windows / Docker Desktop for Mac is an easy-to-use graphical interface provided with the Docker Toolbox, which will make this installation a lot easier. The host.docker.internal and vm.docker.internal DNS entries now resolve. We removed hard-coded IP addresses: it now dynamically discovers the IP allocated by macOS. Osxfs file sharing now works. We made a configuration change that should improve disk performance. The Restart option in the Docker menu works.

This is just a quick update to let you know that we’ve released another preview of Docker Desktop for Apple M1 chips, which you can download from our Docker Apple M1 Tech Preview page. The most exciting change in this version is that Kubernetes now works.

First, a big thank you to everyone who tried out the previous preview and gave us feedback. We’re really excited to see how much enthusiasm there is for this, and also really grateful to you for reporting what doesn’t yet work and what your highest priorities are for quick fixes. In this post, we want to update you on what we’ve done and what we’re still working on.

Some of the biggest things we’ve been doing since the New Year are not immediately visible but are an essential part of eventually turning this into a supported product. The previous preview was built on a developer’s laptop from a private branch. Now all of the code is fully integrated into our main development branch. We’ve extended our CI suite to add several M1 machines, and we’ve extended our CI code to build and test Docker Desktop itself and all our dependencies for both architectures in parallel. With the whole pipeline now automated, from now on we will be able to issue new previews on a more regular basis and have more confidence that our changes have not broken anything.

As for feature changes and bug fixes since the last preview, here are some of the highlights:

• Kubernetes now works (although you might need to reset the cluster in our Troubleshoot menu one time to regenerate the certificates).
• The host.docker.internal and vm.docker.internal DNS entries now resolve.
• We removed hard-coded IP addresses: it now dynamically discovers the IP allocated by macOS.
• osxfs file sharing now works.
• We made a configuration change that should improve disk performance.
• The Restart option in the Docker menu works.

The last major thing that we’re still working on is:

• HTTP proxy support. At the moment the HTTP proxy configured on the host is ignored.

Finally, we are aware of the following items which are unfortunately out of our control. Here are our best recommendations for now:

• Some corporate security or VPN software blocks the connection between the host and the VM, or the VM and the outside world. This can happen even if it doesn’t happen on Intel Macs because we had to switch to a new connection method with Apple’s new virtualization framework. There are some possible workarounds posted by users on our github issue, https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/5208.
• If you are trying to run Intel-based containers on an M1 machine, they can sometimes crash. We are using a piece of software called qemu to emulate Intel chips on M1 but it occasionally fails to run the container. Where possible we recommend sticking to arm64 containers on M1 machines; they will also be faster.

If you have an M1 Mac, then we invite you to download this new build and try it out. (Just bear in mind that it’s still a preview, so expect some rough edges.) If you encounter any bugs, please let us know on our GitHub repo. If you filed a bug against the previous preview, now would be a good time to retest it and let us know either that it’s now fixed or that it isn’t. You can chat with other users on the #docker-desktop-mac channel on our community Slack. And finally, if you’re the sort of user who wants to be the first to try out early versions of our software (not just M1) we invite you to join our Developer Preview Program.

Let’s shed some light on a questions that readers often ask me in email or comments.

How do I get the IP address of a Docker container?

tl;dr

This is a tricky point, because the solution itself is short and simple, but in real life you don’t use the IP address of a Docker container unless you want to test or try something on an exceptional basis.

For the above reason, I think it’s useful to read the whole post, but in case you don’t have the time, here you have the one-liner to solve the issue.

With a specific example to check the IP of a container called boring_noyce on the default bridge network the command looks like this:

Let’s come back to the main point now; why and when you might want to use the IP address of a Docker container?

Why would you need the IP address of a Docker container?

When you work with Docker in real projects, you may work on various levels, namely:

• the container level
• with Docker Compose or
• Swarm or another orchestrator

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The idea behind containerization is that your containers are meant to be ephemeral by design. What does this mean?

The meaning of empheral is something short-lived, the Docker documentation explains it like this:

“By “ephemeral”, we mean that the container can be stopped and destroyed, then rebuilt and replaced with an absolute minimum set up and configuration.”

You can read about this in the Docker docs or in my in my Dockerfile best practices tutorial.

The real meaning of this is that your containers are just temporary workers that can be destroyed and recreated as you need them.

The mechanism to construct a complex application with containers that you can throw away and replace any time is built into Docker. You use user defined networks, Compose and Swarm configuration to drive your application stack.

On the abstract orchestration levels of Compose and Swarm, you don’t work with IP addresses directly. You rather work with your definition of the desired state of your entire stack.

This is why I said in the beginning that you are supposed to work with IP adrersses directly on an exceptional basis only; like tracking down a bug or testing out something new while you are building your configuration.

It’s important that you build your production system with the Compose file to be used with Compose or Swarm, or deployment descriptors for other orhestrators like Kubernetes rather than relying on container IPs.

Having said all this, let’s see how to get the IP address of a Docker container.

Understand your networks

The IP address of a container only makes sense in the context of the network your container is connected to.

When you start out with Docker, you probably use one of the default networks of Docker. These are the default networks:

These networks are created by the Docker engine when it starts up on the host machine.

The meaning of these networks is the following:

• The bridge network is the default network; if you create a new container, it will be connected to the bridge network by default. The bridge network provides isolation from your host machine, thus your containers are isolated from the host network. The containers can refer each other by IP address on the bridge network. (They cannot however refer each other by container name.)
• If you connect a container to the host network, then your container will share your host machine’s network. This is benefitial if you containerise a legacy system that is heavily dependent on the host IP. The host network configuration only works as expected on Linux systems, beacuase Docker uses a virtual machine under the hood on Mac and Windows, thus the host network in these cases refers to the VM rather than the real host itself. (I have not used a host network on a Windows machine with a Windows based container, so I cannot comment on that scenario.)
• If you connect your container to the none network, this means that your contaienr is not connected to any network.

In order to create a good design for your application, you usually create user defined networks. You use these networks to isolate parts of your application architecture and you define contianers that serve as gateways between these networks. This implies that some of your containers are connected to one user defined network, while other containers are connected to two networks, or even more depending on your design.

So it’s important to understand the network context of your application before going after the IP address.

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You use the docker network commands or the Compose file to define your networks. Please refer to the Compose tutorial, the Swarm tutorial for more details, or get the book for an in-depth learning experience.

Please note that Swarm mode adds further networks to the list. If you create a service in Swarm mode, requests are routed to the right node and right container by the default overlay network. You can, of course create user defined overlay networks.

Get the IP address of your containers

Let’s create a few containers to experiment with. I created 3 Nginx containers running the below commands.

Now these containers are connected to the default bridge network. If you use use docker-compose to start containers from a Compose file, you can use the same methods that I desribe here.

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Let’s examine the bridge network now.

As you can see the bridge network (I mean the network called bridge) has three containers connected now. If you want to casually see the IP address of the containers on a network, you can always inpect the network and see the IPs.

You can get the IP address of a single container inspecting the container itself and using GO templates to filter the results with the -f (filter) flag.

This one-liner may look elegant, but I think it’s impractical, because it’s too long and you need to enter the network name (bridge) in the middle manually.

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You may think now that the one-liner is better, because you can use it in scripts. Please remember that you are not supposed to do that. If you need the IP address in production scripting, your should probably improve your network design.

Let’s add a user defined network to the picture and see what happens.

Now our container called boring_noyce is connected to mynet, too. Let’s inspect the container’s network settings.

We can try again to find out the IP address of this container on the various networks.

The main point I’m trying to make with this post is to learn the art of architecture design and spend time on your networks definition rather than hacking with IPs. Nevertheless you have the tools here to find out your container IPs.

Having said this, I think we can get a bit more funky with this command. We can, for example, list the IPs of all containers on the bridge network.

The same command on the user defined network gives only one IP, because only one of the containers is connected.

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A note on Swarm mode

If you are in Swarm mode, you work with services directly. You are not supposed to touch containers. If you need to work with a container (on an exceptional basis) to check something, your best option is to ssh into one of the nodes in the Swarm and use docker container ls and the commands I showed you in this post.