How to ssh into docker-machine VirtualBox instance?

Question

docker-machine version 0.2.0 docker version 1.6.2

I'm using docker-machine to create a machine using VirtualBox. Everything works fine but I'd like to ssh into the machine itself and I find no instructions on how to do this. I can connect to the ssh port:

ssh $(docker-machine ip dev) 

But I've no idea what username / password / identity file to use.

Answer 1

You can log into docker-machine hosts by just running

docker-machine ssh default 

(Using the "default" host here)

The identity files should be stored under ~/.docker/machine/machines. If you want to log into a container (as opposed to the host), use docker exec as suggested by user2915097.

Answer 2

if you really need to do it via ssh, this is working with docker 1.8.2

init docker:

eval "$(docker-machine env default)" 

get the IP from your default docker machine:

docker-machine ip default 

this prints something like this out: 192.168.99.100

ssh [email protected] 

password is tcuser but you can also use the identity file, see other answer