So I recently tried setting up docker on ubuntu and ran into a few hurdles, below is the checklist of what needed to be setup or installed on Ubuntu in order to run a docker project.

Make sure these are installed/Setup

docker
docker-compose
virtualbox
docker-machine

Setting up the docker-machine default ip

Then using docker machine you need to setup an IP to run in a web browser.

There is more thorough documentation on the docker website. The summary of what I found worked:

Run the following commands:

docker-machine create –driver virtualbox default
docker-machine env default
eval “$(docker-machine env default)“

Get the ip address of default

docker-machine ip default

That ip is what you will be using in your browser to view the docker files.

When you run your docker container:

docker-compose up

Then you will be provided with a port number. Eg 127.0.0.1:8000

Then you use the ip above and that port number.

See the other docker posts for solutions to some of the errors I ran into and fixed.