使用 Homebrew 安装 rancher-machine

项目链接

• 主页
• 上游文档
• 软件包管理器页面

命令和别名

• rancher-machine

项目历史

The official README identifies Rancher Machine as a fork of Docker Machine and describes Machine as software for creating Docker hosts on a computer, cloud providers, or inside a data center, then configuring the Docker client to talk to them.

采用历史

Rancher states that the project is intended to be embedded and executed by the full Rancher product, while standalone CLI functionality remains available but is no longer the primary human-facing focus.

使用方式

The CLI creates and manages machines, stores per-machine host configuration under the Machine storage path, and preserves Docker Machine-style commands for environments that still need machine provisioning from scripts, Terraform, or Rancher components.

为什么软件包爱好者会关心

For package maintainers, rancher-machine is notable as a downstream-maintained Docker Machine lineage package: the binary name and storage paths remain familiar, while releases and branches track Rancher consumption rather than Docker's old release stream.

时间线

• 2015: Docker Machine-era storage conventions such as ~/.docker/machine became part of the tool lineage.
• 2025-07-18: The upstream Docker Machine repository was archived, increasing the relevance of maintained forks.
• 2026-07-02: Rancher Machine latest GitHub release listed as v0.15.0-rancher137.2.

Related projects

• Docker Machine is the upstream project lineage.
• Rancher consumes Rancher Machine from its release branches and tags.
• Docker Engine hosts are the managed targets created by Machine.

来源

• https://gcbw.github.io/docker.github.io/machine/
• https://github.com/rancher/machine
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rancher/machine/master/commands/mcndirs/utils.go
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rancher/machine/master/libmachine/persist/filestore.go