

If you have Docker running on an Ubuntu (14.04 is what I'm using), you will need to edit /etc/init/nf and update the DOCKER_OPTS variable to the following: DOCKER_OPTS='-H tcp://0.0.0.0:4243 -H unix:///var/run/docker.sock' With some trial and error, I was able to finally figure out what was needed and figure I would document this for myself and for anyone else who maybe interested. I was searching online but could not find any tutorials that provides clear instructions on how to enable the remote API for an Ubuntu Virtual Machine that I recently built to run Docker. While going through the documentation, I found that Docker also provides a nice remote REST API which by default, seems to be disabled.

I have been playing around with Docker lately in my home lab and have primarily been using the Docker CLI.
