Because of Dockers rapid growth, it's difficult to determine if documentation on the internet is out-of-date or not. This paper is written for the Docker 1.12.3 beta that runs native containers on OSX. Before this innovation, the Docker/mac workflow was not optimal. This is the first part of a 2 paper where we get a rails app up and running on Docker and Kubernetes. See part 2 here: http://www.egg