Is Boot2Docker deprecated?

[rcross]

I'm a bit confused. The latest version of Docker seems to deprecate boot2docker, but I also see this is a separate project and is apparently still being worked on?

Can anyone give me some insight into what's going on?

[thaJeztah]

I can imagine this is confusing; boot2docker exists of two parts; boot2docker-cli and boot2docker - a lightweight Linux distribution for running Docker.

boot2docker-cli is a tool to setup a Virtual Machine running the boot2docker distro. This tool (boot2docker-cli) has been deprecated in favor of docker-machine (which also lets you setup a Virtual Machine running boot2docker Linux)

So TL;DR, boot2docker (the Linux distro) is not deprecated (but there will be a large change in an upcoming release)

[jakirkham]

@thaJeztah, by large change in an upcoming release are you referring to the fact the VM will be Debian-based instead of Tiny Core-based or are you meaning something different?

[thaJeztah]

@jakirkham yes, that's the change I was referring to

[md5]

@thaJeztah Is unclejack/debian2docker the repo we should be looking at or is there another proposed ISO out there?

[thaJeztah]

No, that project is unrelated (apart from @unclejack being a Docker maintainer), the next generation of the boot2docker distribution can be found here; https://github.com/docker/boot2docker

[md5]

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