GETTING STARTED

Docker is still under heavy development. It should not yet be used in production. Check the repo for recent progress.

Installing on Ubuntu

Requirements

  • Ubuntu 12.04 (LTS) (64-bit)
  • or Ubuntu 12.10 (quantal) (64-bit)
  • The 3.8 Linux Kernel

  1. Install dependencies

    The linux-image-extra package is only needed on standard Ubuntu EC2 AMIs in order to install the aufs kernel module. 
    sudo apt-get install linux-image-extra-`uname -r`

  2. Install Docker

    Add the Ubuntu PPA (Personal Package Archive) sources to your apt sources list, update and install.

    This may import a new GPG key (key 63561DC6: public key "Launchpad PPA for dotcloud team" imported).

    sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dotcloud/lxc-docker
    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get install lxc-docker

  3. Run!

    docker run -i -t ubuntu /bin/bash
    4. Continue with the Hello world example.
    Or check more detailed installation instructions

Contributing to Docker

Want to hack on Docker? Awesome! We have some instructions to get you started. They are probably not perfect, please let us know if anything feels wrong or incomplete.

Quick install on other operating systems

For other operating systems we recommend and provide a streamlined install with virtualbox, vagrant and an Ubuntu virtual machine.

Questions? Want to get in touch?

There are several ways to get in touch:

Join the discussion on IRC. We can be found in the #docker channel on chat.freenode.net

Discussions happen on our google group: docker-club at googlegroups.com

All our development and decisions are made out in the open on Github github.com/dotcloud/docker

Get help on using Docker by asking on Stackoverflow

And of course, tweet your tweets to twitter.com/getdocker

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