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

  1. Install dependencies:

    sudo apt-get install lxc wget bsdtar curl
    sudo apt-get install linux-image-extra-`uname -r`

    The linux-image-extra package is needed on standard Ubuntu EC2 AMIs in order to install the aufs kernel module.

  2. Install the latest docker binary:

    wget http://get.docker.io/builds/$(uname -s)/$(uname -m)/docker-master.tgz
    tar -xf docker-master.tgz

  3. Run your first container!

    cd docker-master
    sudo ./docker run -i -t base /bin/bash

    Done!

    Consider adding docker to your PATH for simplicity.

    4. Continue with the Hello world example.

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.

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