Compiled from the “Development Tips” series, a roundup of common problems and solutions in Docker usage and operations. 1. Basic Docker Machine Commands Create the my-vm-name virtual machine 1 docker-machine create --driver virtualbox my-vm-name List all docker-machine instances 1 2 3 4 docker-machine ls NAME ACTIVE DRIVER STATE URL SWARM

1. What Docker Is Docker was born in early 2013 as a side project inside dotCloud (the former name of Docker Inc.). Its source code is hosted on GitHub, it is written in Go, and it follows the Apache 2.0 open-source license. The goal of the Docker project is to provide a lightweight operating system virtualization solution.