Hyper on Mac OS X: an alternative to boot2docker

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I'm not sure I understand this. How is it different from b2d?

Hi,

Thanks for your questions. There are few differences between Hyper and boot2docker:

1- Docker commands are run inside the boot2docker VM and not directly on the host  . Hyper daemon directly runs on your Mac.

2- When using boot2docker, each time you restart the VM, you have to manually mount the drives (and reinstall Fig if you're using it)

3- While boot2docker is a "wrapper" around Docker and VirtualBox, Hyper for Mac is part of the whole Hyper ecosystem, providing a similar environment on Linux, or Mac OS X.

So, for each Docker image, hyper creates a VM?

Hyper creates a VM for all "group" of Docker images, which can be specified in the Pod file (see Podfile documentation https://docs.hyper.sh/reference/podfile.html)

Been following Hyper. Absolutely love this!

Thank you! We have received a lot of encouraging messages, comments and contribution since our first release, and it is really helping us on working even harder ;-)

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