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Remote Docker Host Setup on AWS EC2
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remote-docker-setup.txt
1. Create EC2 instance using Ubuntu
2. Connect to EC2 VM using ssh
3. Install Docker by following https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/ubuntu/
4. Run post installation steps to run Docker as a non-privileged user https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/linux-postinstall/
5. From local computer, copy your ssh publicKey content (i.e, ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub or ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub)
6. In EC2 VM, add your public ssh public key to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys using echo 'ssh-rsa ....' >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
7. Now from local computer, you should be able to login using : `ssh ubuntu@EC2_PUBLIC_IP`
8. Set `DOCKER_HOST` env var as `export DOCKER_HOST=ssh://ubuntu@EC2_PUBLIC_IP`
9. Run docker info. It should connect to remote docker running in your EC2 EC2_PUBLIC_IP
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