Refer to https://github.com/boot2docker/boot2docker for instructions to install boot2docker.
The super short instructions for installing boot2docker on OS X are:
brew update
brew install boot2docker
boot2docker init
boot2docker up
Log into boot2docker with boot2docker ssh -L 8080:localhost:8080. This will forward port 8080 from your laptop/desktop to the VirtualBox VM. boot2docker does not handle setting up port forwards, so adding -L 8080:localhost:8080 is essential if you wish to access the API/UI of Cattle.
boot2docker ssh -L 8080:localhost:8080
The password is tcuser
docker run -d -p 8080:8080 cattle/server
mkdir -p /home/docker/.ssh
chmod 700 /home/docker/.ssh
curl -s http://localhost:8080/v1/authorized_keys | tee -a /home/docker/.ssh/authorized_keys
curl -X POST http://localhost:8080/v1/agents -F user=docker
It may take a couple minutes to register the server because the server must pull a special image to run the agent under.
If something doesn’t seem to be working you can look at the logs with docker logs -f CONTAINER_ID. If everything worked correctly you should see a host named boot2docker at http://localhost:8080/static/.