On OSX, through boot2docker, I have a ruby on rails app running in a docker container.
However, it can't seem to access third party API's.
The code below works outside of a docker container, but not inside:
response = HTTParty.get('https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/questions?site=stackoverflow')
When run from inside a docker container the request timeouts with:
SocketError: getaddrinfo: Name or service not known
At this point I think the problem might be with the boot2docker setup, as if do:
boot2docker ssh
ping stackexchange.com
then it timeouts.
I am using OSX 10.10.3, boot2docker 1.50, and docker-compose
After more digging I found an issue on Github, installing boot2docker via brew was the problem.
I uninstalled, via brew, rebooted and installed directly from http://boot2docker.io/ . This appears to have fixed the problem.
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OK so here is what I have done so far. I installed docker for mac, and that worked fine. From there I tried to get a project up and running using docker-compose and I got the following error:
Could not read CA certificate "/Users/<useraccountfolder>/.boot2docker/certs/boot2docker-vm/ca.pem": open /Users/<useraccountfolder>/.boot2docker/certs/boot2docker-vm/ca.pem: no such file or directory
So I tried to fix it by trying this accepted answer. This is when I got another error, Host does not exist: “default”. This is when I trie this accepted answer, but when I tried to run docker-machine create default, I got this error: Error with pre-create check: "VBoxManage not found. Make sure VirtualBox is installed and VBoxManage is in the path". I am just lost at this point. Any help?
To use docker machine you need the latest version of VirtualBox, from the docker docs:
IF YOU ARE USING DOCKER FOR MAC
Docker for Mac uses HyperKit, a lightweight macOS virtualization solution built on top of the Hypervisor.framework in macOS 10.10 Yosemite and higher.
Currently, there is no docker-machine create driver for HyperKit, so you will use virtualbox driver to create local machines. (See the Docker Machine driver for Oracle VirtualBox.) Note that you can run both HyperKit and Oracle VirtualBox on the same system. To learn more, see Docker for Mac vs. Docker Toolbox.
Make sure you have the latest VirtualBox correctly installed on your system (either as part of an earlier Toolbox install, or manual install).
Source: https://docs.docker.com/machine/get-started/#prerequisite-information
OK so I found a solution which is probably not fixing the root issue, but it does work. To unset previous variables I ran this command unset ${!DOCKER*}. This worked, but then I had to run it every time I started a new terminal session, so I added it to my .bash_profile and now I am good.
I'm just setting up docker on my Mac. The installation worked and I got some containers running (following the getting-stared guide), but now I want to connect with my browser to localhost, to show a web app.
For that I'm following this guide: https://docs.docker.com/engine/userguide/containers/usingdocker/
In the last section it is said, that you simple go with your browser to: localhost:XXXXX wheras XXXXX is the port, that you found out using the command
docker ps -l
First problem: here nothing happends. The browser is showing an empty page (ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED)
Further more in the guide it is explained, that for Mac you can check your ip address via the command:
docker-machine ip your_vm_name
Here appears the second problem: This command results in an error-message:
Host does not exist: "your_vm_name"
So my questions are:
How to set up the virtual machine (or "your_vm_name" respectively)?
Does it have to do anything with the vhosts file on my Mac OS?
Is there mybe a conflict with MAMP (which I'm also using sometimes)?
Thanks in advance!
And thanks to GianArb for the very fast answer! That solution works as well.
Just to contribute to the community, I just found out by myself, that the solution was too simple to be true.
Instead of your-vm-name use default (obviously the default-host that is set up by docker), so I just used:
docker-machine ip default
and then I got the right IP.
Hello the process to start to use docker on mac with docker-machine is like:
Create a new docker machine on virtualbox, you can use a name like "your_vm_name" or just "default" in this way you can not use the name because "default" is a keyword that docker-machine try to use when you don't specify nothing.
The problem here is, why docker-machine ip your_vm_name doesn't provide the good ip? Can you copy the result of your command
echo $DOCKER_HOST
Usually it's 192.168.99.100
thanks a lot
Actual for Mac OS:
If there is no real need in VirtualBox machine you can just remove it.
Docker can start Linux containers under Mac OS without any VirtualBox machines.
Without any VirtualBox machines, all exported ports are available on the localhost:*.
Remove docker machine
docker-machine ls
docker-machine stop default
docker-machine rm default
Make sure that you don't have the command eval $(docker-machine env ...) in your ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc.
Otherwise, nothing will work. You will see the error Error: No machine name(s) specified and no "default" machine exists.
By the default configuration no need to have any env variables like $DOCKER_*
In my case, the only docker installed by downloading a .dmg image from the official site works without any problems. Any versions installed via brew didn't work out of the box.
PS: tested on Mac OS 10.13 and 10.14
When I run from command line
docker pull centos
I got timeout error. I have no proxy and try from different networks and stucked on this. What reason can be?
Since you wrote that you use Windows 8 I assume that you run boot2docker?
Can you first verify that you can connect to boot2docker itself? E.g. with docker ps? If you still get timeouts issuing that command, make sure boot2docker is running by typing boot2docker restart.
If you can connect to boot2docker without any problems and the docker pull centos problem remains then it seems you have other kind of networking problems on your site which block your connections.
I'm in boot2docker. I'm not entirely sure I understand it completely, but it seems to be needed for a project I'm on.
I've ssh'd in, and I tried to do a make on our project, but I got
make: not found
Then I tried a:
apt-get install make
And got
apt-get: not found
Tried googling, but couldn't find anything about that, or any package manager.
Any suggestions on how to install anything in boot2docker?
EDIT:
When I asked this I misunderstood how boot2docker and docker worked hand in hand. There is actually a package manager (tce-load) that allows install of packages, but really, it shouldn't be used and anything involving a project using docker should be using a docker container within boot2docker that has the build tools inside of that. Although I did find tce-load useful installing nano, since I'm not a fan of vi and that's occationaly useful.
Seems boot2docker uses Tiny Linux which has its own package manager called "tce-load". There's a list of packages for it here:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/tcz_2x.html
There's everything that's needed to make or whatever located there.
You should not be installing anything on the boot2docker vm as that gets deleted and reset often. You should install any tools inside a docker container running on the boot2docker vm.
Only linux can run docker so when running on osx or windows you must use boot2docker. boot2docker is just running a linux vm that has docker installed. Once you are using boot2docker you use docker like you would normally.
The boot2docker vm is not where you should be installing things, what you should be doing is running a container that has the programs you need installed. This can be accomplished by finding a useful image from the docker registry or by making your own docker image.
I've installed boot2docker (full install) on Windows 7 and am trying to run the container port redirection demo:
docker run --rm -i -t -p 80:80 nginx
Which looks like it isn't quite finishing properly, it just stops and looks like this:
When I open another git bash shell and run boot2docker ip I get 192.168.59.103, and when I pop that in chrome I get Error code: ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT
It works fine for me with plain docker on Ubuntu 14.04. What else do I need to do to make it work with boot2docker on windows?
Looking more closely, my problem is the same as this question: Docker, can't reach “rails server” development from localhost:3000 using docker flag -p 3000:3000
The answer to that question that worked for me was this one, which simply says to run
boot2docker ssh -L 8080:localhost:80
at the terminal before starting boot2docker
In my case I do this (from a git bash terminal):
boot2docker init # from https://github.com/boot2docker/boot2docker
boot2docker up
boot2docker ssh -L 8787:localhost:8787 # sets up port forwarding and starts boot2docker
docker run -d -p 8787:8787 cboettig/rstudio # starts the container I want
then go to my web browser in windows and point it to http://localhost:8787/ and I get a server instance of RStudio. When I'm done:
docker rm -f $(docker ps -a -q) # delete all containers
UPDATE: downgrading to an earlier version of VirtualBox will fix this
After struggling with folder sharing I regressed through previous versions of VirtualBox and found that with version 4.3.12 I could enable folder sharing and have the port forwarded exactly according to the official instructions, that is I could access my docker container at 192.168.59.103. So downgrading VirtualBox is another option for working around this problem.
ANOTHER UPDATE: updating to the new release of v1.3.1 of boot2docker will fix this
This release just came out a week ago and includes VirtualBox Guest Additions, which simplifies all of this. I now simply do
boot2docker ssh # start boot2docker
docker run -d -p 8787:8787 -v /c/Users/foobar:/home/rstudio/foobar rocker/rstudio
And I get everthing working as expected and can log into RStudio in my browser at http://localhost:8787/ (linux) or http://192.168.59.103:8787 (Windows) and it just works.
In this case I've also got folder sharing working with, /c/Users/foobar corresponding to an existing folder on my computer at C:/Users/foobar, and foobar can be anything. With this method I can read and write files both ways between Windows and RStudio and I don't need to connect to a special IP address like the samba method does in the official docs
I had this problem too after a couple of failed attempts to boot2docker start. This created multiple entries of host-only networks configured on VirtualBox (VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet Adapter #2, VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet Adapter #3), and probably the boot2docker's VM was using a bad one.
I cleaned up using Virtualbox standard UI, leaving only one of the networks and now everything works fine.
I'm using boot2docker 1.5.0.
Just to register something that happened to me, and made me lose a couple of hours.