Installing Docker on Ubuntu
Let's get started with installing Docker on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 64-bit. We can use AWS AMI in order to create our setup. The image can be launched on AMI directly with the help of following link:
The following diagram illustrates the installation steps required to install Docker on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
Prerequisites
Docker requires a 64-bit installation, regardless of the Ubuntu version. The kernel must be 3.10 at minimum.
Let's check our kernel version, using the following command:
$ uname -r
The output is a kernel version of 3.13.x, which is fine:
3.13.0-74-generic
Updating package information
Perform the following steps to update the APT repository and have necessary certificates installed:
- Docker's APT repository contains Docker 1.7.x or higher. To set APT to use packages from the new repository:
$ sudo apt-get update
- Run the following...