Install & Start Docker

Install & Start Docker

Install
There are two ways to install Docker Engine. You can install using the yum package manager. Or you can use curl with the get.docker.com site. This second method runs an installation script which also installs via the yum package manager.

Install with yum
Log into your machine as a user with sudo or root privileges.
Make sure your existing yum packages are up-to-date.
$ sudo yum update
Add the yum repo.
$ sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/docker.repo <<-'EOF'
[dockerrepo]
name=Docker Repository
baseurl=https://yum.dockerproject.org/repo/main/centos/7/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://yum.dockerproject.org/gpg
EOF
Install the Docker package.
$ sudo yum install docker-engine
Start the Docker daemon.
$ sudo service docker start
Verify docker is installed correctly by running a test image in a container.
$ sudo docker run hello-world
Unable to find image 'hello-world:latest' locally
    latest: Pulling from hello-world
    a8219747be10: Pull complete
    91c95931e552: Already exists
    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.
    Digest: sha256:aa03e5d0d5553b4c3473e89c8619cf79df368babd1.7.1cf5daeb82aab55838d
    Status: Downloaded newer image for hello-world:latest
    Hello from Docker.
    This message shows that your installation appears to be working correctly.

    To generate this message, Docker took the following steps:
     1. The Docker client contacted the Docker daemon.
     2. The Docker daemon pulled the "hello-world" image from the Docker Hub.
            (Assuming it was not already locally available.)
     3. The Docker daemon created a new container from that image which runs the
            executable that produces the output you are currently reading.
     4. The Docker daemon streamed that output to the Docker client, which sent it
            to your terminal.

    To try something more ambitious, you can run an Ubuntu container with:
     $ docker run -it ubuntu bash

    For more examples and ideas, visit:
     http://docs.docker.com/userguide/
Install with the script
Log into your machine as a user with sudo or root privileges.
Make sure your existing yum packages are up-to-date.
$ sudo yum update
Run the Docker installation script.
$ curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com/ | sh
This script adds the docker.repo repository and installs Docker.
Start the Docker daemon.
$ sudo service docker start
Verify docker is installed correctly by running a test image in a container.
$ sudo docker run hello-world
Create a docker group
The docker daemon binds to a Unix socket instead of a TCP port. By default that Unix socket is owned by the user root and other users can access it with sudo. For this reason, docker daemon always runs as the root user.

To avoid having to use sudo when you use the docker command, create a Unix group called docker and add users to it. When the docker daemon starts, it makes the ownership of the Unix socket read/writable by the docker group.

Warning: The docker group is equivalent to the root user; For details on how this impacts security in your system, see Docker Daemon Attack Surface for details.
To create the docker group and add your user:

Log into Centos as a user with sudo privileges.
Create the docker group.
sudo groupadd docker
Add your user to docker group.
sudo usermod -aG docker your_username
Log out and log back in.
This ensures your user is running with the correct permissions.
Verify your work by running docker without sudo.
$ docker run hello-world
Start the docker daemon at boot
To ensure Docker starts when you boot your system, do the following:

  $ sudo chkconfig docker on
If you need to add an HTTP Proxy, set a different directory or partition for the Docker runtime files, or make other customizations, read our Systemd article to learn how to customize your Systemd Docker daemon options.

Uninstall
You can uninstall the Docker software with yum.

List the package you have installed.
$ yum list installed | grep docker
yum list installed | grep docker
docker-engine.x86_64   1.7.1-1.el7 @/docker-engine-1.7.1-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
Remove the package.
$ sudo yum -y remove docker-engine.x86_64
This command does not remove images, containers, volumes, or user-created configuration files on your host.
To delete all images, containers, and volumes, run the following command:
$ rm -rf /var/lib/docker
Locate and delete any user-created configuration files.