In my experience the OSX tools for docker work absolutely fine. If you&#x27;ve got in a bad state, completely uninstall all existing docker-related stuff, `brew update` and `brew install docker-machine`.<p>The article sounds like a fun personal project, but I definitely don&#x27;t see inconvenience on OSX being a justification.<p>If shell commands are too much to type then create aliases.<p>The VM&#x27;s IP doesn&#x27;t seem to change; add an entry in &#x2F;etc&#x2F;hosts mapping it to something like &quot;docker-machine&quot;.<p>I don&#x27;t understand the people in this thread complaining that OSX support is, e.g., &quot;lackluster&quot;. The docker containers don&#x27;t run on OSX so it&#x27;s very nice that there&#x27;s an OSX client that works perfectly as far as I can tell.