Deploying local Docker hosts with Docker Machine

Before we journey out into the cloud experience, we are going to look at the basics of Docker Machine locally by launching it, using Oracle VirtualBox to provide the VM.

Important note

VirtualBox is a free virtualization product from Oracle. It allows you to install VMs across many different platforms and central processing unit (CPU) types. Download and install VirtualBox from https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads/.

To launch the machine, all you need to do is run the following command:

$ docker-machine create --driver virtualbox docker-local

This will start the deployment, during which you will get a list of tasks that Docker Machine is running. To launch your Docker host, each host launched with Docker Machine goes through the same steps.

First of all, Docker Machine runs a few basic checks, such as confirming that VirtualBox is installed, and creating certificates and a directory structure in which it will store...