Having worked with multiple Virtualization platforms, I recently got an interesting opportunity to work with its younger sibling containerization . The platform of choice was obviously Docker. Getting Docker up and run in an OS of your preference is a simple task, you can straightaway get it done using the instructions here . Interesting part is getting to play around with it Getting it up and running: Docker can be started as a services or at a tcp port. Starting as a service is pretty straight forward #service docker start However, the interesting bit is when you want to run it as a deamon listening to a specific port. This is useful in scenarios when you want to manage the docker engine remotely, say using a windows docker client or using one of the open source GUIs available for docker like Shipyard and Mist.io The command to run docker as a deamon listening to a port is # /usr/bin/docker -d -H tcp://0.0.0.0:4243 -H unix:///var/run/docker.sock & Here docke