install_docker_on_Amazon_linux.md

Installation of Docker on Amazon Linux

It is a standard method of installing Docker on Amazon Linux EC2

1. Update packages

sudo yum update -y

2. Install Docker

On Amazon Linux

sudo yum install docker -y

On Amazon Linux 2

sudo amazon-linux-extras install docker

3. Start the Docker service

sudo service docker start

or

sudo systemctl start docker

4. Enable docker server start on system startup.

sudo systemctl enable docker

5. Verify that docker is installed correctly by running the hello-world image.

sudo docker run hello-world

NOTE:

• If you are not using root user no need to use sudo in front of commads.
• In realtime envirnoment we are not install docker in Amazon linux we had separate containerization services called Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and so on.

Install On Other Platforms

• Install on CentOS and Fedora
• Install on Ubuntu