Proxmox 4 is based on Debian Jessie. Reference for this install: https://docs.docker.com/engine/installation/linux/debian/#/install-using-the-repository
$ apt-get install curl
$ curl -fsSL https://apt.dockerproject.org/gpg | apt-key add -
$ echo "deb https://apt.dockerproject.org/repo/ debian-jessie main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list
$ apt-get update
$ apt-get install docker-engine
If you installed Proxmox 4 using the ZFS filesystem (and why wouldn't you), you should switch Docker to use ZFS for its images and containers.
We want Docker to be using the ZFS storage engine. This enables very efficient use of ZFS snapshots and clones for Docker images and volumes. See https://docs.docker.com/engine/userguide/storagedriver/zfs-driver/.
If the answer to the following command is "zfs", ignore the rest of this section. If the answer is "aufs" or any other filesystem, continue on to switch the storage driver to ZFS.
$ docker info|grep Storage
Storage Driver: aufs
$ service docker stop
$ rm -rf /var/lib/docker
$ zfs create -o mountpoint=/var/lib/docker rpool/docker
Docker should detect ZFS and automatically use the ZFS storage driver. However, I found that I had to add the --storage-driver=zfs
option explicitly.
Note that since Proxmox 4 uses systemd, /etc/defaults/docker is ignored. Setting DOCKER_OPTS there is ineffective.
For reference, I read this on Docker with systemd: https://docs.docker.com/engine/admin/systemd/
Create a directory for the config file override:
$ mkdir /etc/systemd/system/docker.service.d
Create a file called /etc/systemd/system/docker.service.d/storage-driver.conf
with the contents:
[Service]
ExecStart=
ExecStart=/usr/bin/dockerd --storage-driver=zfs -H fd://
Then run to reload the service config files:
$ systemctl daemon-reload
The answer should now be "zfs" instead of "aufs".
$ service docker start
$ docker info|grep Storage
Storage Driver: zfs
This runs the hello world image to verify that Docker is running properly.
$ docker run hello-world
Unable to find image 'hello-world:latest' locally
latest: Pulling from library/hello-world
78445dd45222: Pull complete
Digest: sha256:c5515758d4c5e1e838e9cd307f6c6a0d620b5e07e6f927b07d05f6d12a1ac8d7
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.
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
Share images, automate workflows, and more with a free Docker ID:
https://cloud.docker.com/
For more examples and ideas, visit:
https://docs.docker.com/engine/userguide/
$ docker images
REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE
hello-world latest 48b5124b2768 5 weeks ago 1.84 kB
$ docker ps -a
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
16f1e50f69be hello-world "/hello" 2 minutes ago Exited (0) 2 minutes ago musing_mirzakhani
$ zfs list
NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT
rpool 327G 3.19T 128K /rpool
rpool/ROOT 12.2G 3.19T 128K /rpool/ROOT
rpool/ROOT/pve-1 12.2G 3.19T 12.2G /
rpool/data 306G 3.19T 128K /rpool/data
rpool/docker 879K 3.19T 543K /var/lib/docker
rpool/docker/1610e55c639dadcb48c89a3f686f7251571fa68d157bf900c32cedbccc7a307f 85.2K 3.19T 144K legacy
rpool/docker/1610e55c639dadcb48c89a3f686f7251571fa68d157bf900c32cedbccc7a307f-init 117K 3.19T 144K legacy
rpool/docker/6a3fbc4db9eb44757209fbec08d4873f45d512ffef83fcc3ddd6ef4a8ad79968 133K 3.19T 133K legacy
rpool/swap 8.50G 3.20T 5.53M -
Thanks! Also worked for me with 5.1!