Recipe 5.1 Installing Docker Engine
Problem
To enable you to deploy Docker containers to a host machine you will need to firstly install Docker Engine on the instance.
Solution
SSH to the host machine that you wish to use Docker on.
Install Docker.
$ sudo yum install -y docker
- Start the Docker service.
$ sudo service docker start
- Add the user to the docker group so you can execute Docker commands without using sudo.
$ sudo usermod -a -G docker <user_account>
For the settings to take effect, you will need to log out of the host.
Now log back in.
If you did everything correctly, the below command will return lots of information about your Docker install without any errors.
$ docker info
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