#Installing docker on mac os x how to#

This will only work on the current line of Intel-based Apple computers. IРІР‚в„ўm using a modified version of the instructions for macOS found here. IBM has thoughtfully provided a Db2 image on Docker Hub and they documented the use of Docker for installation of Db2 Community Edition in the IBM Knowledge Center. It also means we can use a Linux distribution of Db2. This makes it fairly simple to run any Linux application, program, or server process in its own container within the desktop environment. On macOS, Docker uses a Linux-based container. Let's start with getting macOS Docker Desktop set up and get Db2 running on it.

I plan to go a bit further and get this usable for development on macOS, but that seems ambitious, so I had better break it down into multiple articles. Ian Bjorhovde wrote an excellent article for IDUG members. This is not the first article to cover Db2 on Docker, of course.

#Installing docker on mac os x how to#

In this article, I'll go into how to set up and use Db2 using Docker on macOS. With the upsurge of virtualization tools, it has become much easier to work with Db2 on macOS. So, even when I could run a native Db2 server on my machine, I still ended up maintaining a Linux instance as well. There was a brief period in 2009 when IBM provided a macOS implementation of Db2 Express-C v9.7 on Mac OS X, but many of the tools were not included and running a back-level version doesn't do much good over time. I have been using Apple computers as my primary platform for many years.Р”Р‡or most of those years, I had to maintain Linux/Windows virtual machines (using VMWare Fusion) in order to do much. The first step is installing Db2 using Docker. The plan is to get the environment set up first, then some tools, and finally programming.

This is the first of a series of articles focused on setting up an Apple computer as a development environment for Db2 databases.