How to use your own Docker image for your builds

[viktorbenei]

If anyone’s interested we now have a Feature Requests for preinstalling Docker on the Mac stacks:

Add Docker to macOS installation

Description of the feature request Add Docker as a default installation to all VMs running macOS/Xcode. Use case / for what or how I would use it Allows easy use of supporting services that are used in testing an application. Will cut down on installations that might be involved and expensive (due to installation time). This will also negate the possible challenges of trying to run the same services in different environments.

I also shared an up to date Script based solution there which can be used on a Mac stack, where Docker is not preinstalled, to install and initialize/start Docker:

Add Docker to macOS installation

Hi @aroswell, Thanks for the #feature-request! For now we don’t plan to preinstall docker on the Mac stacks, but if this request gets enough votes we’ll definitely consider it. Why we don’t plan to preinstall it (for now): as discussed in How to use your own Docker image for your builds Docker for Mac, which is the current preferred official solution, doesn’t really work in a virtualized environment and has some other issues too. The older Docker Toolkit does work, but it’s marked as semi-de…