Installing Docker Toolbox
Docker Toolbox has been available for developers for a few years. It precedes newer tools such as Docker Desktop. Toolbox allows a user to work very elegantly with containers on any macOS or Windows computer. Containers must run on a Linux host. Neither Windows nor macOS can run containers natively. Hence, we need to run a Linux VM on our laptop, where we can then run our containers. Docker Toolbox installs VirtualBox on our laptop, which is used to run the Linux VMs we need.
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Docker Toolbox has been deprecated recently and thus we won’t be discussing it further. For certain scenarios, it may still be of interest though, which is why we are mentioning it here.