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How can I attach docker-machine to an existing Droplet created with another docker-machine?

I have some Docker swarm masters and agents I’ve created using my docker-machine client, but I want a way to allow a trusted colleague to attach his local docker-machine installation to the same hosts. Is this possible?

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CWSpear • January 17, 2016

I have a Docker droplet that I made not through Docker Machine, but this worked for me, and it should work for your use case:

Docker Machine has a generic driver that you can use to connect to an existing Docker remote host (replace the stubbed placeholders with your info):

docker-machine create \
    --driver=generic \
    --generic-ip-address=IP_ADDRESS \
    --generic-ssh-user=USERNAME \
    --generic-ssh-key=PATH_TO_SSH_KEY \
    --generic-ssh-port=PORT \
        MACHINE_NAME

You need to be able to SSH in with the key you provide for it to connect. Also, you’ll need to make sure port 2376 is open (ufw allow 2376 in Debian/Ubuntu) and that you can use passwordless sudo (add %sudo ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL to /etc/sudoers).

Docs: https://docs.docker.com/machine/drivers/generic/

Andrew SB • September 11, 2015

Unfortunately, this isn’t very straight forward at the moment. There are some proposals for ways to simplify share machines between users in the future, but for now you would need to share your docker-machine configuration files from the ~/.docker/machine/ directory.

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