Chanezon told me that they will release many components under open source upon the general availability of the releases.

Docker can now be installed as a native Windows or native Mac app, launched and utilized from a system toolbar just like any other packaged application.

These integrated software packages are designed to remove an additional layer of dependency hell for Mac and Windows developers by allowing them to develop directly inside a container.

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The latest Survey by Stack Overflow states that Mac OS X has become the top platform for developer machines.

In 2013 Windows 7 held the top position with 48 percent, Linux with 19.9 percent and Mac OS X was in the third spot with 18.7 percent.

In 2016, Mac OS X took the top spot with 26.2 percent, Windows 7 at second spot with 22.5 percent and Linux commanded 21.7 percent.

You have to download it, install a bunch of tools and dependencies for it to work.

And since Docker uses Linux-specific tools you cant run it natively.

Instead, you have to use docker-machine and attach to a VirtualBox VM on your system.

The virtual machine runs the Boot2docker Linux distribution, made specifically to run the Docker daemon.

He explained that Docker for Mac and Docker for Windows utilizes the native hypervisors of these operating systems, eliminating the need to installing additional components.

This integrated package includes Docker Compose and Notary offers a streamlined installation process that no longer requires non-system third-party software like VirtualBox.

As a result, users get significantly faster performance and refined user experience.

Docker for Windows users the hypervisor layer of Windows and then installs a minimal Alpine Linux distribution with Docker engine installed on it.

You can monitor the running Docker daemon running by clicking on an icon in the system tray icon, it also gives you access to your engine, logs and other stuff.

When you go to command line interface on Windows and type Docker commands, they target the Docker engine directly.

Docker has invested resources in enhancing xhyve to improve the experience.

Similar to Windows, Alpine Linux distribution is installed on xhyve virtual machine and then runs as a native Mac application.

When it runs for the first time, its installs the needed tools.

Linux developers have been able to do in-container developer since the beginning of Docker by mounting their app into the container.

But that didnt work well on Mac and Windows because of the limitations in Virtualbox, said Chanezon.

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Now you have super easy tools to just develop inside of a container on Mac by mounting your code as a volume and then you use a modified compose file in order to create and push the docker image for production, said Chanezon.

Docker for Mac and Windows includes a DNS server for containers and is integrated with the Mac OS X and Windows networking system.

Docker now works flawlessly over VPN as they have done a great amount of work on improving VPN support.

Developers get the flexibility to choose any IDE or text editor to write their application and use any version control manager.

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