Start up local Docker Machine on OSX automatically.

com.docker.machine.default.plist

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
    <dict>
        <key>EnvironmentVariables</key>
        <dict>
            <key>PATH</key>
            <string>{{user-path}}</string>
        </dict>
        <key>Label</key>
        <string>com.docker.machine.default</string>
        <key>ProgramArguments</key>
        <array>
            <string>bash</string>
            <string>-c</string>
            <string>/usr/local/bin/docker-machine start {{docker-machine-name}}</string>
            <string>&&</string>
            <string>eval</string>
            <string>$(docker-machine env {{docker-machine-name}})</string>
	</array>
        <key>RunAtLoad</key>
        <true/>
    </dict>
</plist>

Start up local Docker Machine on OSX automatically.md

Notice

This script is no longer required with Docker for Mac which includes an option to run Docker at startup and doesn't use docker-machine to administer the local Docker engine.

Requirements

• Docker Machine + Docker
• curl
• A Virtualbox-driven Docker Machine whose name is store in $DOCKER_MACHINE_NAME env var

Usage

The git.io URL (https://git.io/vHZiP) is a shortened form of the raw url of the plist.

$ curl -sL https://git.io/vHZiP | \
  sed -e "s?{{docker-machine}}?$(which docker-machine)?" \
      -e "s?{{docker-machine-name}}?$DOCKER_MACHINE_NAME?" \
      -e "s?{{user-path}}?$(echo $PATH)?" \
  >~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.docker.machine.default.plist && \
  launchctl load -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.docker.machine.default.plist