github.com/nf/docker@v1.8.1/docs/installation/rhel.md (about) 1 <!--[metadata]> 2 +++ 3 title = "Installation on Red Hat Enterprise Linux" 4 description = "Instructions for installing Docker on Red Hat Enterprise Linux." 5 keywords = ["Docker, Docker documentation, requirements, linux, rhel"] 6 [menu.main] 7 parent = "smn_linux" 8 +++ 9 <![end-metadata]--> 10 11 # Red Hat Enterprise Linux 12 13 Docker is supported on the following versions of RHEL: 14 15 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 16 17 This page instructs you to install using Docker-managed release packages and 18 installation mechanisms. Using these packages ensures you get the latest release 19 of Docker. If you wish to install using Red Hat-managed packages, consult your 20 Red Hat release documentation for information on Red Hat's Docker support. 21 22 ## Prerequisites 23 24 Docker requires a 64-bit installation regardless of your Red Hat version. Docker 25 requires that your kernel must be 3.10 at minimum, which Red Hat 7 runs. 26 27 To check your current kernel version, open a terminal and use `uname -r` to 28 display your kernel version: 29 30 $ uname -r 31 3.10.0-229.el7.x86_64 32 33 Finally, is it recommended that you fully update your system. Please keep in 34 mind that your system should be fully patched to fix any potential kernel bugs. 35 Any reported kernel bugs may have already been fixed on the latest kernel 36 packages. 37 38 ## Install Docker Engine 39 40 There are two ways to install Docker Engine. You can use `curl` with the `get.docker.com` site. This method runs an installation script which installs via the `yum` package manager. Or you can install with the `yum` package manager directly yourself. 41 42 ### Install with the script 43 44 You use the same installation procedure for all versions of CentOS. 45 46 1. Log into your machine as a user with `sudo` or `root` privileges. 47 48 2. Make sure your existing yum packages are up-to-date. 49 50 $ sudo yum update 51 52 3. Run the Docker installation script. 53 54 $ curl -sSL https://get.docker.com/ | sh 55 56 4. Start the Docker daemon. 57 58 $ sudo service docker start 59 60 5. Verify `docker` is installed correctly by running a test image in a container. 61 62 $ sudo docker run hello-world 63 Unable to find image 'hello-world:latest' locally 64 latest: Pulling from hello-world 65 a8219747be10: Pull complete 66 91c95931e552: Already exists 67 hello-world:latest: The image you are pulling has been verified. Important: image verification is a tech preview feature and should not be relied on to provide security. 68 Digest: sha256:aa03e5d0d5553b4c3473e89c8619cf79df368babd1.7.1cf5daeb82aab55838d 69 Status: Downloaded newer image for hello-world:latest 70 Hello from Docker. 71 This message shows that your installation appears to be working correctly. 72 73 To generate this message, Docker took the following steps: 74 1. The Docker client contacted the Docker daemon. 75 2. The Docker daemon pulled the "hello-world" image from the Docker Hub. 76 (Assuming it was not already locally available.) 77 3. The Docker daemon created a new container from that image which runs the 78 executable that produces the output you are currently reading. 79 4. The Docker daemon streamed that output to the Docker client, which sent it 80 to your terminal. 81 82 To try something more ambitious, you can run an Ubuntu container with: 83 $ docker run -it ubuntu bash 84 85 For more examples and ideas, visit: 86 http://docs.docker.com/userguide/ 87 88 ### Install without the script 89 90 1. Log into your machine as a user with `sudo` or `root` privileges. 91 92 2. Make sure your existing yum packages are up-to-date. 93 94 $ sudo yum update 95 96 3. Add the yum repo yourself. 97 98 For RHEL 7 run: 99 100 $ cat >/etc/yum.repos.d/docker.repo <<-EOF 101 [dockerrepo] 102 name=Docker Repository 103 baseurl=https://yum.dockerproject.org/repo/main/centos/7 104 enabled=1 105 gpgcheck=1 106 gpgkey=https://yum.dockerproject.org/gpg 107 EOF 108 109 4. Install the Docker package. 110 111 $ sudo yum install docker-engine 112 113 5. Start the Docker daemon. 114 115 $ sudo service docker start 116 117 6. Verify `docker` is installed correctly by running a test image in a container. 118 119 $ sudo docker run hello-world 120 121 ## Create a docker group 122 123 The `docker` daemon binds to a Unix socket instead of a TCP port. By default 124 that Unix socket is owned by the user `root` and other users can access it with 125 `sudo`. For this reason, `docker` daemon always runs as the `root` user. 126 127 To avoid having to use `sudo` when you use the `docker` command, create a Unix 128 group called `docker` and add users to it. When the `docker` daemon starts, it 129 makes the ownership of the Unix socket read/writable by the `docker` group. 130 131 >**Warning**: The `docker` group is equivalent to the `root` user; For details 132 >on how this impacts security in your system, see [*Docker Daemon Attack 133 >Surface*](/articles/security/#docker-daemon-attack-surface) for details. 134 135 To create the `docker` group and add your user: 136 137 1. Log into your machine as a user with `sudo` or `root` privileges. 138 139 2. Create the `docker` group and add your user. 140 141 `sudo usermod -aG docker your_username` 142 143 3. Log out and log back in. 144 145 This ensures your user is running with the correct permissions. 146 147 4. Verify your work by running `docker` without `sudo`. 148 149 $ docker run hello-world 150 151 ## Start the docker daemon at boot 152 153 To ensure Docker starts when you boot your system, do the following: 154 155 $ sudo chkconfig docker on 156 157 If you need to add an HTTP Proxy, set a different directory or partition for the 158 Docker runtime files, or make other customizations, read our Systemd article to 159 learn how to [customize your Systemd Docker daemon options](/articles/systemd/). 160 161 162 ## Uninstall 163 164 You can uninstall the Docker software with `yum`. 165 166 1. List the package you have installed. 167 168 $ yum list installed | grep docker 169 yum list installed | grep docker 170 docker-engine.x86_64 1.7.1-0.1.el7 171 @/docker-engine-1.7.1-0.1.el7.x86_64 172 173 2. Remove the package. 174 175 $ sudo yum -y remove docker-engine.x86_64 176 177 This command does not remove images, containers, volumes, or user created 178 configuration files on your host. 179 180 3. To delete all images, containers, and volumes run the following command: 181 182 $ rm -rf /var/lib/docker 183 184 4. Locate and delete any user-created configuration files.