[TIL] 如何快速在 Google Cloud Platform 上面架設一個 Docker 環境

Using docker-machine is another way to host your google compute instance with docker.

docker-machine create \
  --driver google \
  --google-project $PROJECT \
  --google-zone asia-east1-c \
  --google-machine-type f1-micro $YOUR_INSTANCE

If you want to login this machine on google cloud compute instance, just use docker-machine ssh $YOUR_INSTANCE

Refer to docker machine driver gce

Note:

• The progress of docker-machine might be slow because it need connect to Google Compute Engine.
• Do not use multiple docker-machine creation, because docker need to write related information on docker.sock. You might occur error on Wrapper Docker Machine process exiting due to closed plugin server (unexpected EOF).
• Using docker-machine to create local vbox vm will install docker 1.12 rc1, but on GCP will using 1.11. So, we could use docker swarm mode :(