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Start a Docker host in AWS with docker-machine

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Download the appropriate binary for your workstation:

https://docs.docker.com/machine/

sudo curl -L https://github.com/docker/machine/releases/download/v0.2.0/docker-machine_linux-amd64 > /usr/local/bin/docker-machine
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-machine

Create the host

docker-machine  create docker -d amazonec2 \
  --amazonec2-access-key ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP \
  --amazonec2-secret-key '1234567890abcdefghijklm' \
  --amazonec2-subnet-id subnet-12345678 \
  --amazonec2-vpc-id vpc-1234abcd \
  --amazonec2-zone c

What you get:

INFO[0001] Launching instance...
INFO[0026] Waiting for SSH on 54.165.56.23:22
sudo: unable to resolve host ip-10-2-0-254
sudo: unable to resolve host docker
sudo: unable to resolve host docker
INFO[0242] "docker" has been created and is now the active machine.
INFO[0242] To point your Docker client at it, run this in your shell: eval "$(docker-machine env docker)"