How To Install and Use Docker on CentOS 7

Docker is a containerization technology that allows you to quickly build, test and deploy applications as portable, self-sufficient containers that can virtually run everywhere.

In this tutorial we’ll go through how to install Docker CE on CentOS 7 and explore the basic Docker concepts and commands.

Prerequisites

Before proceeding with this tutorial, make sure that the following prerequisites are met:

• CentOS 7 server
• You have non-root user with sudo privileges. You check this guide about how create a new sudo user.

Install Docker on CentOS

Although the Docker package is available in the official CentOS 7 repository it may not always be the latest version. The recommended approach is to install Docker from the Docker’s repositories.

To install Docker on your CentOS 7 server follow the steps below:

1. Start by updating your system packages and install the required dependencies:

   sudo yum updatesudo yum install yum-utils device-mapper-persistent-data lvm2

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2. Next, run the following command which will add the Docker stable repository to your system:

   sudo yum-config-manager --add-repo https://download.docker.com/linux/centos/docker-ce.repo

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3. Now that the Docker repository is enabled, install the latest version of Docker CE (Community Edition) using yum by typing:

   sudo yum install docker-ce

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4. Once the Docker package is installed, start the Docker daemon and enable it to automatically start at boot time:

   sudo systemctl start dockersudo systemctl enable docker

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5. To verify that the Docker service is running type:

   sudo systemctl status docker

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   The output should look something like this:

   ● docker.service - Docker Application Container Engine
      Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/docker.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
      Active: active (running) since Wed 2018-10-31 08:51:20 UTC; 7s ago
        Docs: https://docs.docker.com
    Main PID: 2492 (dockerd)
      CGroup: /system.slice/docker.service
              ├─2492 /usr/bin/dockerd
              └─2498 docker-containerd --config /var/run/docker/containerd/containerd.toml

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6. At the time of writing, the current stable version of Docker is 18.06.1, to print the Docker version type:

   docker -v

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   Docker version 18.06.1-ce, build e68fc7a