Note: The following steps are meant to create an environment for deploying app with tomcat and mysql with a war file. Assuming you are using mac. For the Linux server version, please go here.
- Download Docker here. This should give you everything you need to run Docker on Mac. Note: You don't need to install VM or boot2docker if you are on Linux.
If you don't like the convenient way, you can do it manually. Install Docker, VM (for running boot2docker) and boot2docker (for running Docker on Mac)