Creating a VM to test Docker – migrating from Unraid to Napp-It
onwards…
- downloaded the Ubuntu 16.04 Server LTS CD
- Created new VM
- Connected ISO to virtual DVD in console in VMWare vSphere client
- booted to the ISO
- pressed F4 and selected “minimal”
- pressed F6 and selected minimal VM
- walked through and added SSH at the right point
- SSHd to the server
- I installed docker using these instructions, including configuring docker to start on boot.
- created
/mnt/cups - ran a new docker container…
[email protected]:/mnt$ sudo docker run -d --name="cups-google-print" --net="host" --privileged="true" -e TZ="UTC" -e HOST_OS="ubuntu" -e "CUPS_USER_ADMIN"="admin" -e "CUPS_USER_PASSWORD"="pass" -e "TCP_PORT_631"="631" -v "/mnt/cups":"/config":rw -v /dev:/dev -v /etc/avahi/services:/avahi -v /var/run/dbus:/var/run/dbus mnbf9rca/cups-google-print --restart=unless-stopped Unable to find image 'mnbf9rca/cups-google-print:latest' locally latest: Pulling from mnbf9rca/cups-google-print a3ed95caeb02: Pull complete 3b1d42cd9af9: Pull complete d2ff49536f4d: Pull complete f94adccdbb9c: Pull complete ae857e8dd13c: Pull complete 327565847940: Pull complete 83835dcb6373: Pull complete 78b26d55dd43: Pull complete 388ec0e358c7: Extracting [=======================================> ] 190 MB/238.1 MB 388ec0e358c7: Pull complete 05dd908ba895: Pull complete 87c9e1d25f3b: Pull complete 75d49e6da022: Pull complete 4b8ca4d5d690: Pull complete Digest: sha256:3c231589c941288c4541016944658ee5915e4d8761648e1d88254c90dea9beca Status: Downloaded newer image for mnbf9rca/cups-google-print:latest f33434ebccaf2b5644260e664014d7364d4d5ead45bf4374e931a0acedd06015
- checked it’s running with the docker ps -a command:
[email protected]:/mnt$ sudo docker ps -a CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES f33434ebccaf mnbf9rca/cups-google-print "/sbin/my_init" 2 minutes ago Up 2 minutes cups-google-print
- Browsed to https://<server IP>:631/ to see that it’s running
bingo!