How to install and setup Docker on RHEL 7/CentOS 7?

Install and use Docker on RHEL 7 or CentOS 7 (method 1)

The procedure to install Docker is as follows:

1. Open the terminal application or log in to the remote box using ssh command:
   
   

   ssh user@remote-server-name

2. Type the following command to install Docker via yum provided by Red Hat:
   
   

   sudo yum install docker

3. Type the following command to install the latest version of Docker CE (community edition):
   
   

   sudo yum remove docker docker-common docker-selinux docker-engine
   sudo yum-config-manager --add-repo https://download.docker.com/linux/centos/docker-ce.repo
   sudo yum install docker-ce

Install Docker on CentOS 7 / RHEL 7 using yum

Type the following yum command:

$ sudo yum install docker

Install Docker CE on CentOS 7 (method 2)

First, remove the older version of docker (if any):

$ sudo yum remove docker docker-common docker-selinux docker-engine-selinux docker-engine docker-ce

Next, install needed packages:

$ sudo yum install -y yum-utils device-mapper-persistent-data lvm2

Configure the docker-ce repo:

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

Finally, install docker-ce:

$ sudo yum install docker-ce

How to enable docker service

$ sudo systemctl enable docker.service

How to start/stop/restart docker service on CentOS7/RHEL7

Start docker

$ sudo systemctl start docker.service

Stop docker

$ sudo systemctl stop docker.service 

Restart docker

$ sudo systemctl restart docker.service  

 
Get status of docker

$ sudo systemctl status docker.service

How to find out info about Docker network bridge and IP addresses

Default network bridge named as docker0 and is assigned with an IP address. To find this info run the following ip command:

$ ip a
$ ip a list docker0

How to run docker commands

The syntax is:

docker command
docker command arg
docker [options] command arg
docker help | more

Get system-wide information about Docker

docker info

How to test your docker installation

Docker images are pulled from docker cloud/hub such as docker.io or registry.access.redhat.com and so on. Type the following command to verify that your installation working:

docker run hello-world

How to search for Docker images

Now you have working Docker setup. It is time to find out images. You can find images for all sort of open source projects and Linux distributions. To search the Docker Hub/cloud for nginx image run:

docker search nginx

How to install Docker nginx image

To pull an image named nginx from a registry, run:

docker pull nginx

How to run Docker nginx image

Now you pulled the image, it is time to run it:

docker run --name my-nginx-c1 --detach nginx

How to list running Docker containers

docker ps
docker ps -a

How to run a command in a running container

Run ls /etc/nginx command for my-nginx-c1 container

docker exec fe0cdbc0225a ls /etc/nginx

docker exec my-nginx-c1 ls /etc/nginx

How to stop running containers

docker stop my-nginx-c1

docker stopfe0cdbc0225a

How to remove docker containers

docker rm my-nginx-c1
docker ps -a