Amazon Linux 2 - install docker & docker-compose using 'sudo amazon-linux-extras' command

install-docker.md

UPDATE (March 2020, thanks @ic): I don't know the exact AMI version but yum install docker now works on the latest Amazon Linux 2. The instructions below may still be relevant depending on the vintage AMI you are using.

Amazon changed the install in Linux 2. One no-longer using 'yum' See: https://aws.amazon.com/amazon-linux-2/release-notes/

Docker CE Install

sudo amazon-linux-extras install docker
sudo service docker start
sudo usermod -a -G docker ec2-user

Make docker auto-start

sudo chkconfig docker on

Because you always need it....

sudo yum install -y git

Reboot to verify it all loads fine on its own.

sudo reboot

docker-compose install

Copy the appropriate docker-compose binary from GitHub:

sudo curl -L https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.22.0/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m) -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

NOTE: to get the latest version (thanks @spodnet): sudo curl -L https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/latest/download/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m) -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

Fix permissions after download:

sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

Verify success:

docker-compose version

Thanks!

Docker-compose v2.0.0 has been released and they decided to change x86_64 to amd64 in the filename for the release. So as a result this link with $(uname -m) does not work anymore

Looks like this was resolved quickly with a v2.0.1 release.

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Also with the release of docker-compose v2 the official repo now includes arm64 builds. 🎉

Thanks a lot. it worked for me

ln -s /usr/local/bin/docker-compose /usr/bin/docker-compose

that's sweet.

@ozbillwang thanks a lot, solved it for me

Should check PATH for run Docker-composer:

[root@ip-172-30-xx-xx bin]# PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
[root@ip-172-30-xx-xx bin]# echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin

Thank you so much. It's worked!

The docker-compose part you can skip and just do:

sudo pip3 install docker-compose

You can do this right after installing docker, then do a reboot, then docker-compose should work fine.
Thanks for sharing this gist.
Was very helpful!

use pip3 also works. thanks

sudo curl -L https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/latest/download/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m) -o /usr/bin/docker-compose && chmod +x /usr/bin/docker-compose && docker-compose --version

For those who get all the way down here: the following userdata script works great for me on a basic Amazon Linux ARM EC2 instance:

#!/bin/bash
yum update
yum -y install docker
service docker start
usermod -a -G docker ec2-user
chkconfig docker on
pip3 install docker-compose
reboot

Note userdata always runs as root so no need to use sudo

After its finished initialising run this to see the output of the userscript to ensure it all ran as expected and for debugging:

sudo cat /var/log/cloud-init-output.log

Guys in case you followed Docker instructions first you need to delete the repo before continuing:
sudo rm /etc/yum.repos.d/docker-ce.repo

delete the repo before continuing

provide link ? Never had to do it.

The docker-compose part you can skip and just do:

sudo pip3 install docker-compose

You can do this right after installing docker, then do a reboot, then docker-compose should work fine. Thanks for sharing this gist. Was very helpful!

depending on the version of distribution most likely you'll install an old version of docker-compose (1.29 vs 2.6.1)

For me, uname -s returned Linux , but the download URL has linux, so converted to lowercase and updated curl to -

sudo curl -L https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/latest/download/docker-compose-$(uname -s | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')-$(uname -m) -o /usr/bin/docker-compose && sudo chmod 755 /usr/bin/docker-compose && docker-compose --version

Thanks

Works great. Thank you!

Thanks, it worked also on the AWS cloud shell...

thank you bro.....

Thank you

Thanks!

Thank you bro, it works well!

just pulled amazonlinux:2

sh-4.2# service docker start
sh: service: command not found
sh-4.2# sudo service docker start
sh: sudo: command not found

• Reload a Linux user's group assignments to docker w/o logout after add current user to docker group (copy from https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-to-install-docker-on-amazon-linux-2/)

$ sudo usermod -a -G docker ec2-user
$ id ec2-user
# Reload a Linux user's group assignments to docker w/o logout
$ newgrp docker

• Access AWS ECR https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-ecr-credential-helper#amazon-linux-2

be sure to restart your machine. On 10/31/2022 10:01 PM CDT Vladislav Velichko ***@***.***> wrote:     @vlad8x8 commented on this gist. just pulled amazonlinux:2 sh-4.2# service docker start sh: service: command not found sh-4.2# sudo service docker start sh: sudo: command not found —Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub or unsubscribe.You are receiving this email because you commented on a thread. Triage notifications on the go with GitHub Mobile for iOS or Android.                                                            

Awesome!

If this doesn't work for you for whatever reason, add it to PATH

sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/docker-compose /usr/bin/docker-compose

be sure to restart your machine.

restart after what? right after I started it?
it can't find even sudo

be sure to restart your machine.

restart after what? right after I started it? it can't find even sudo

You must have signed in as a non-sudoer

be sure to restart your machine.

restart after what? right after I started it? it can't find even sudo

You must have signed in as a non-sudoer

Looking at your thread, you don’t have to start docker.. I will install it on Amazon Linux when I have extra time and reply with the steps.