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I. Overview of Docker Machine

In front of our experimental environment there is only one Docker host, and all the containers are running on this host. However, in a real environment there will be multiple hosts, where containers are started, run, stopped, and destroyed, and related containers communicate with each other over the network, regardless of whether they are located in the same host.

Docker machine allows you to install and configure Docker host in batches, which can be local virtual machines, physical machines, or cloud hosts in a public cloud.

Docker machine supports installing and configuring Docker host in different environments, including:

1. General Linux operating system;
2. Virtualization platform-VirtualBox, VMWare, Hyper-V;
3. OpenStack;
4. Public cloud-Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Compute Engine, Digital Ocean, and more.

Docker Machine has a unified name for these environments: provider. For a particular provider,docker machine, install and configure the Docker host with the appropriate driver, as shown in:

1. Docker Engine VS Docker Machine

What we call Docker refers to the Docker Engine, which is made up of Docker cli,rest Api,docker daemon.

Docker Machine is a tool for configuring and managing our hosts, managed in such a way as:

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