Installing Docker on various systems

Intro

Setting up docker using the official docker repo, not Ubuntu packages nor EPEL.

Requirements

    curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/docker/docker/master/contrib/check-config.sh > check-config.sh
    chmod +x check-config.sh
    ./check-config.sh

Install

debian / ubuntu

dpkg -l | grep docker # no distro package
#apt purge docker docker-engine docker.io


apt install apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl software-properties-common
apt install nftables bridge-utils

curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | \
    gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/docker-archive-keyring.gpg

vi /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list

# ubuntu
deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/docker-archive-keyring.gpg] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu jammy stable

# debian
deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/docker-archive-keyring.gpg] https://download.docker.com/linux/debian bookworm stable

–or– (another way around)

add-apt-repository "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu `lsb_release -cs` stable"

curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | apt-key add -

apt-key fingerprint 0EBFCD88

and proceed with the installation

apt update
apt install docker-ce
# incl. iptables
# incl. containerd.io
# incl. docker-ce-cli

slackware

    slackpkg search iptables
    slackpkg search git-2
    slackpkg search procps-ng
    slackpkg search xz
    ls -lF /proc/cgroups

grab the latest Docker CE release as binaries

    rel=24.0.7

    wget https://download.docker.com/linux/static/stable/x86_64/docker-$rel.tgz
    tar xzf docker-$rel.tgz
    ls -lF /usr/local/bin/
    cp -i docker/* /usr/local/bin/

note it is also available on github as release tag.

    #git clone https://github.com/docker/docker-ce.git

rhel/centos

ls -al /etc/yum.repos.d/
rpm -qa | grep -i docker

yum install -y yum-utils device-mapper-persistent-data lvm2
yum-config-manager --add-repo https://download.docker.com/linux/centos/docker-ce.repo
yum makecache fast
yum install -y docker-ce

Post-install

# debian
grep docker /etc/group
# docker:x:997:
# bookworm: docker:x:996:

# slackware
    groupadd -g 331 docker

make the docker commands available to some user

    usermod -aG docker OPERATOR

note - as user you might run this command to refresh group attribution on a UNIX system

    newgrp docker

Ready to go

see host

Additional notes

and if you also need Compose

git clone https://github.com/docker/compose.git
cd compose/
pip install -U -r requirements.txt
python setup.py install

Resources

download

https://download.docker.com/linux/static/stable/x86_64/

https://github.com/docker/docker-ce/tags

install

https://docs.docker.com/engine/installation/linux/docker-ce/binaries/#prerequisites

Install Docker Engine https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/

Install Docker Engine on Ubuntu https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/ubuntu/

https://docs.docker.com/install/linux/docker-ce/ubuntu/

https://docs.docker.com/engine/installation/linux/docker-ce/centos/#install-using-the-repository

Post-installation steps for Linux https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/linux-postinstall/