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Transparent boot2docker on OS X

This is how you can autorun boot2docker on boot, so that you can use docker as you would on Linux, without ever* knowing that the daemon's not running locally.

1. Install VirtualBox & boot2docker (obviously)
2. Create a startup script with Automator
3. Put in /usr/local/bin/boot2docker up && /usr/local/bin/boot2docker shellinit > ~/.boot2docker-shellinit.sh
4. Add echo "export DOCKER_IP=$(boot2docker ip 2>/dev/null)" >> ~/.boot2docker-shellinit.sh if you want the non-standard but very-convenient DOCKER_IP env-var as well (thanks for the suggestion @city41!)
5. Update your .profile or equivalent file with source ~/.boot2docker-shellinit.sh
6. Reboot your machine