Docker-in-Docker with Amazon Linux 2 Container

Dockerfile

FROM amazonlinux:2

RUN yum -y update \
    # systemd is not a hard requirement for Amazon ECS Anywhere, but the installation script currently only supports systemd to run.
    # Amazon ECS Anywhere can be used without systemd, if you set up your nodes and register them into your ECS cluster **without** the installation script.
    && yum -y install systemd \
    && yum clean all

RUN cd /lib/systemd/system/sysinit.target.wants/; \
    for i in *; do [ $i = systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service ] || rm -f $i; done

RUN rm -f /lib/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/* \
    /etc/systemd/system/*.wants/* \
    /lib/systemd/system/local-fs.target.wants/* \
    /lib/systemd/system/sockets.target.wants/*udev* \
    /lib/systemd/system/sockets.target.wants/*initctl* \
    /lib/systemd/system/basic.target.wants/* \
    /lib/systemd/system/anaconda.target.wants/*

RUN amazon-linux-extras install epel docker && \
    systemctl enable docker

CMD ["/usr/sbin/init"]

docker build -t ecs-anywhere-node .

docker run -d --privileged \
  --name ecs-anywhere \
  -p 8080-8090:8080-8090 ecs-anywhere-node:latest

docker exec -it ecs-anywhere /bin/bash

Been looking to do this all week unfortunately your solution doesn't seem to work better than any other

docker image ls

gives the usual

Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at unix:///var/run/docker.sock. Is the docker daemon running?

@tjtaill According to the error message you got, it looks you need to run Docker daemon beforehand.