docker-install VS multipass

curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com -o get-docker.sh sudo sh get-docker.sh # Install docker compose sudo curl -L "https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.29.2/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m)" -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose # Apply executable permissions to the binary sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose # Run Project docker-compose up -d

root@ubuntu-16gb-hel1-1:~# curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com | sh - # Executing docker install script, commit: e5543d473431b782227f8908005543bb4389b8de + sh -c apt-get update -qq >/dev/null + sh -c DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install -y -qq apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl >/dev/null + sh -c install -m 0755 -d /etc/apt/keyrings + sh -c curl -fsSL "https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg" | gpg --dearmor --yes -o /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg + sh -c chmod a+r /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg + sh -c echo "deb [arch=arm64 signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu jammy stable" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list + sh -c apt-get update -qq >/dev/null + sh -c DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install -y -qq docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-compose-plugin docker-ce-rootless-extras docker-buildx-plugin >/dev/null + sh -c docker version Client: Docker Engine - Community Version: 26.0.0 API version: 1.45 Go version: go1.21.8 Git commit: 2ae903e Built: Wed Mar 20 15:18:14 2024 OS/Arch: linux/arm64 Context: default Server: Docker Engine - Community Engine: Version: 26.0.0 API version: 1.45 (minimum version 1.24) Go version: go1.21.8 Git commit: 8b79278 Built: Wed Mar 20 15:18:14 2024 OS/Arch: linux/arm64 Experimental: false containerd: Version: 1.6.28 GitCommit: ae07eda36dd25f8a1b98dfbf587313b99c0190bb runc: Version: 1.1.12 GitCommit: v1.1.12-0-g51d5e94 docker-init: Version: 0.19.0 GitCommit: de40ad0 ================================================================================ To run Docker as a non-privileged user, consider setting up the Docker daemon in rootless mode for your user: dockerd-rootless-setuptool.sh install Visit https://docs.docker.com/go/rootless/ to learn about rootless mode. To run the Docker daemon as a fully privileged service, but granting non-root users access, refer to https://docs.docker.com/go/daemon-access/ WARNING: Access to the remote API on a privileged Docker daemon is equivalent to root access on the host. Refer to the 'Docker daemon attack surface' documentation for details: https://docs.docker.com/go/attack-surface/ ================================================================================ root@ubuntu-16gb-hel1-1:~# docker ps -a CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES

curl | sh is a bad practice, but lack of "curl https://get.docker.com | sh" scenario is certainly bad for Podman adoption.

sudo apt-get purge docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-buildx-plugin docker-compose-plugin docker-ce-rootless-extras sudo rm -rf /var/lib/docker sudo rm -rf /var/lib/containerd Install Docker curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com -o get-docker.sh sudo sh ./get-docker.sh

For Linux (using curl): curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com -o get-docker.sh && sh get-docker.sh

Install Docker (curl -sSL https://get.docker.com/ | sudo sh)

On WSL2, you just install Docker the same way as you would do on Linux. `sudo apt install docker.io` (from Debian/Ubuntu repo) or `curl https://get.docker.com | sh` (from Docker Inc). If you are using different WSL distribution, the standard way to install docker should work just fine. (e.g. `sudo pacman -S docker` works as expected on ArchWSL)

curl https://get.docker.com | bash -E

After all the resources are provisioned, I need to install Docker and pull a specific image. I will install Docker like this: curl -sSL https://get.docker.com | sh.

# 1. download the script # # $ curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com -o install-docker.sh # # 2. verify the script's content # # $ cat install-docker.sh # # 3. run the script with --dry-run to verify the steps it executes # # $ sh install-docker.sh --dry-run # # 4. run the script either as root, or using sudo to perform the installation. # # $ sudo sh install-docker.sh #

Install Multipass from https://multipass.run

Multipass orchestrates virtual Ubuntu instances

Multipass I love Multipass for quick Ubuntu instances spun up for testing or as a playground. Wish I would have known and used of it sooner.

If you just need Ubuntu then you can try "Multipass" from Canonical (https://multipass.run/). Works quite well on my M2 Air. I haven't tried using Linux GUI with it though as I need only terminal based VMs.

Multipass is pretty clutch for trivial VMs on MacOs for sure. I use it for a bunch of ssh jump boxes running vpns to different sites. The macOS build does not support custom images (lest not without [some truly insane hacks](https://github.com/canonical/multipass/issues/1260#issuecomm...) , which doesn’t really matter for what I use it for but it is kind of a bummer. If you need something with a little more grunt but don’t want to go full blown with writing your own QEMU tooling or fussing with something like UTM or Parallels, [quickemu](https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu) is a really nice qemu wrapper with sane defaults that can expose a whole lot of power if you need it.

I would be cautious or even distrustful of using anything from Oracle. VirtualBox components come under three different licenses - GPLv2, personal use & evaluation license, and an enterprise license. Their VirtualBox license FAQ [1] gives them enough leeway to change future licenses at will. If an exploit is discovered in your old VirtualBox and they've changed the license, you're out of luck.

We've moved our development to KVM and Virtual Machine Manager on Linux [3] and UTM on Mac [4]. There are other options to run your VM, such as Multipass [5] or VirtualBuddy [6].

On a digressive topic - it was fun migrating our legacy application server stack from Oracle Java (old & poorly considered decision) to OpenJDK, thanks to their license [2].

[1] https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Licensing_FAQ

[2] https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/javase/jdk-faqs.htm...

[3] https://ubuntu.com/blog/kvm-hyphervisor

[4] https://mac.getutm.app/

[5] https://multipass.run/

[6] https://github.com/insidegui/VirtualBuddy

How does it compare to https://multipass.run/?

If you have a reasonably beefy computer, you can always try setting up Multipass and set up 2-3 nodes for a k8s cluster, it's how I'm doing my own certification training. I do have a k3s Raspberry Pi cluster, but with Pi prices being what they are still it'd almost be cheaper to do a cloud setup. ☹️