Exploring the Docker Machine
Explore how to configure your local Docker client to communicate with a remote Docker Machine using environment variables. Learn to run Docker commands on a virtual instance, understand image management on remote machines, and verify your setup to enable effective deployment workflows.
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Configuring the Docker CLI
There is yet another way to perform actions on our docker-machine-managed instance: we can configure our (local) Docker client to talk to our new instance’s Docker Engine. This is a huge benefit of Docker’s client-server architecture.
We can use the same commands with the client CLI locally and have it take effect on any remote machine of our choosing. We simply configure our CLI to point to different machines.
Environment variables
Configuring the Docker CLI to point at a different instance’s Docker Engine is done via ...