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Last active November 9, 2020 17:11
Docker in RHEL/CentOS 8
Assistance from this article: https://www.liquidweb.com/kb/how-to-install-docker-on-centos-8/
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Introduction
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Red Hat and Docker broke up which means you can't just install Docker in CentOS or RHEL 8 and expect it to work.
In fact if you follow the docker instructions to install, you *will* get some of docker installed but when you try to start the service it will bomb.
So how do we get around this? Trick yum (or dfn) into thinking we're running release 7. Then install Docker and Docker Compose.
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Procedure