Docker Linux Installation

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Overview

Verified with Centos 7.

Prerequisites

A 3.8 kernel or later is required.

Setting a yum Repository

Create a docker.repo in /etc/yum.repos.d:

[dockerrepo]
name=Docker Repository
baseurl=https://yum.dockerproject.org/repo/main/centos/7
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://yum.dockerproject.org/gpg

Alternative URL for Centos 6: https://yum.dockerproject.org/repo/main/centos/6 Oracle Linux: https://yum.dockerproject.org/repo/main/oraclelinux/6/

Remove Older Releases

Remove older Docker releases,

yum list installed | grep docker

yum erase ...

Install

yum install docker-engine

The yum installation procedure enables the docker server to start at boot:

systemctl is-enabled docker
enabled

If not, enable it:

systemctl enable docker

Reboot

docker version


Client:
 Version:      17.03.1-ce
 API version:  1.27
 Go version:   go1.7.5
 Git commit:   c6d412e
 Built:        Fri Mar 24 00:36:45 2017
 OS/Arch:      linux/amd64

Server:
 Version:      17.03.1-ce
 API version:  1.27 (minimum version 1.12)
 Go version:   go1.7.5
 Git commit:   c6d412e
 Built:        Fri Mar 24 00:36:45 2017
 OS/Arch:      linux/amd64
 Experimental: false

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