I guess you have installed brew if not just follow this page and do everything that I’ve described. This toolbox contains also docker-compose (more below) and Kinematic, which allow you to manage your container by using GUI than a command line. So, Docker is available as another machine in Docker environment. The special feature in this toolbox is the requirement for VirtualBox, which will be a supervisor to run Linux. It’s an app provided by Docker Company for Mac OS and Windows. I can recommend that solution only if you want to test something or your project doesn’t use a framework with a lot of files. Using native install method you don’t have to install VirtualBox to run Linux, but sharing files between your Mac OS and systems in containers are really slowly. This is probably the easiest way, but unfortunately not the best. – first methodįirst what you have to do is to go to Docker website and just download and run the. But there are a few other possibilities to install it on Mac OS. In this post, I want to show you how to install Docker by using brew which installation process I wrote last time.