I'm not a docs maintainer, just a casual observer, but I'm a little puzzled here. Is it just selecting the right SoftLayer Ubuntu image that makes this difficult with just the standard Ubuntu instructions?

@tianon I'm not sure I got your comment, sorry.

@andreaturli We're in the process of rearranging our documentation, and I'm having trouble working out where this document fits in - it seems to me to be showing how hard it is for a user to set up an Ubuntu virtual machine on SoftLayer, and has nothing Docker specific in it.

@tianon if you look at the instructions for AWS there is nothing docker-specific in there too. My little guide is totally similar to that and it suggests an easy path to have docker running on SoftLayer without issues

@andreaturli exactly : #4765

@shykes this too?

Merged as per discussion.

Yes.

First not everyone who wants to use Docker on softlayer might be an Ubuntu user. So it's not necessarily obvious for everyone.

Second there might be softlayer-specific tweaks and configuration in the future. See GCE MTU config for inspiration, or imagine some custom storage-related configuration for example.

Third we are pointing to a default OS and configuration which we know works and we are free to change to match best practices. If we removed that default recommendation, then people might assume their favorite distro is automatically supported out of the box without SL-specific and docker-specific tweaks. Maybe in their search they will stumble upon incomplete or out-of-date instructions by their distro vendor or hosting provider or both. The resulting mess will be our responsibility to support and fix. I would much rather   maintain a single, authoritative set of instructions (and later turn it into an installer, or official Softlayer image, or plugin).

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@shykes this too?

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Ah, makes sense, hadn't thought about it like that :)

thanks!

@jamtur01 when is it supposed to be visible this merged content?

It'll be updated at the next release.

thanks @jamtur01 for your answer. Is there any way to see that change in http://docs.docker.io/en/master/installation/ (which is supposed to be unstable, right?) so that I can reference it on a blog post I'm about to publish.

Thanks!