Docker as a local cloud provider

jclouds-docker is a local cloud provider modelled on docker. Similar to other jclouds supported providers, it supports the same portable abstractions offered by jclouds.

##Setup

Please follow these steps to configure your workstation for jclouds-docker:

install the latest Docker release (please visit https://docs.docker.com/installation/)

If you are using boot2docker then it can also manage certificates and help you setup DOCKER_CERT_PATH and DOCKER_HOST environment variables. (See boot2docker shellinit)

Assuming these environment variables are setup correctly there are no further setups steps are required.

Live tests then can now be run: mvn -Plive integration-test

#How it works

                                           ---------------   -------------
                                          |   Image(s)    | |   Node(s)   |
                                          ---------------   -------------
 ---------    docker remote api           ----------------------------------------
| jclouds | ---------------------------> |              DOCKER_HOST              |
 ---------                               ----------------------------------------

##Components

jclouds - acts as a java client to access to docker features
DOCKER_HOST - hosts Docker API, NB: jclouds-docker assumes that the latest Docker is installed
Image - it is a docker image that can be started.
Node - is a docker container

Assumptions

jclouds-docker assumes that the images specified using the template are ssh'able.

#Notes:

jclouds-docker is still at alpha stage please report any issues you find at jclouds issues
jclouds-docker has been tested on Mac OSX, it might work on Linux iff vbox is running and set up correctly. However, it has never been tried on Windows.

#Troubleshooting As jclouds docker support is quite new, issues may occasionally arise. Please follow these steps to get things going again:

Remove all containers
$ docker rm docker ps -a
remove all the images
$ docker rmi -f docker images -q