Installing Docker on Centos 8

CentOS and RedHat have dropped support for Docker. To get the latest version, we have to manually install it.

First we have to install the latest version of containerd.io:

dnf install https://download.docker.com/linux/centos/8/x86_64/stable/Packages/containerd.io-1.4.3-3.1.el8.x86_64.rpm

Add the docker repo:

dnf config-manager --add-repo=https://download.docker.com/linux/centos/docker-ce.repo

Install docker:

dnf install docker-ce -y

Get docker-compose(as of this writing, 1.27.4 is the lastest version):

curl -L "https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.27.4/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m)" -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

Make it executable:

chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

Create an empty configuration file:

echo -e "{\n}" > /etc/docker/daemon.json

Note: On CentOS 8, the configuration file /etc/docker/daemon.json is not present by default. If present, it should have a valid JSON object. The dockerd daemon will print an error if the config file is blank.

Start and enable docker:

systemctl start docker
systemctl enable docker

Then run one the following commands to make sure that the client can communicate with the daemon:

docker -v # prints the version of docker
docker version # prints the version of all the docker components
docker system info # prints all of the above, host info, and default configuration

Tips: To get the latest version of containerd.io and docker-compose

#!/bin/bash

echo "Installing => containerd.io"
dnf install https://download.docker.com/linux/centos/8/x86_64/stable/Packages/containerd.io-1.4.3-3.1.el8.x86_64.rpm

echo "Adding the Docker repo"
dnf config-manager --add-repo=https://download.docker.com/linux/centos/docker-ce.repo

echo "Installing  => Docker Community Edition"
sleep 1
dnf install docker-ce -y

echo "Getting => Docker-Compose"
curl -L "https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.27.4/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m)" -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

{
	if [ ! -s /etc/docker/daemon.json]; then
		echo -e "{\n}" > /etc/docker/daemon.json 
		echo "Configuration file is created."
		echo "It's empty by default."
		sleep 2
	fi
}

systemctl start docker
systemctl enable docker
clear

pgrep docker > /dev/null

if [ $? -eq 0 ]
then
	echo "Docker is up and running."
	docker -v

else
	echo "Something is wrong!"
	echo "Run: systemctl status docker"
fi