Binaries

Please note this project is currently under heavy development. It should not be used in production.

Right now, the officially supported distributions are:

Install dependencies:

sudo apt-get install lxc bsdtar
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.

Install the docker binary:

wget http://get.docker.io/builds/Linux/x86_64/docker-master.tgz
tar -xf docker-master.tgz
sudo cp ./docker-master /usr/local/bin

Note: docker currently only supports 64-bit Linux hosts.

sudo docker -d &

docker run -i -t ubuntu /bin/bash

Continue with the Hello World example.