Installing Docker on Centos 6.6

Installing Docker on CentOS 6 after removal of docker-io

I'm not sure why docker-io suddenly disappeared, but the same version previously available through the epel repository can be installed directly from this rpm hosted by Docker:

[root@server]# yum install
https://get.docker.com/rpm/1.7.1/centos-6/RPMS/x86_64/docker-engine-1.7.1-1.el6.x86_64.rpm

[root@server]# docker --version
Docker version 1.7.0, build 0baf609

How to install docker 1.9+ in CentOS 6.5?

CentOS 6 and RHEL 6 are no longer supported, and the last build for them is docker 1.7.1.

That page of the documentation (https://docs.docker.com/engine/installation/centos/) also mentions;

Docker runs on CentOS 7.X
Docker requires a 64-bit installation regardless of your CentOS version. Also, your kernel must be 3.10 at minimum, which CentOS 7 runs.

The kernel that those distro's are running on (2.6.x) is over 13 years old, and although newer features are back-ported to them by Red Hat, they lack certain options that are required by Docker, and have proven to be unstable, and unsuitable for production.

I encourage you to upgrade upgrade to CentOS 7.x if you want to (keep) using Docker.

How to install latest version of make in centos6.6 docker container

You can follow the procedure listed on this page. It uses an RPM made for CentOS 6 located in the Russian Fedora Fixes repository though, so be aware of that.

I tried it like this and it works:

# docker run --rm -it centos:6.6 bash
[root@1857c0d2c37b /]# yum -y update
[root@1857c0d2c37b /]# curl http://mirror.yandex.ru/fedora/russianfedora/russianfedora/fixes/el/releases/6/Everything/i386/os/russianfedora-fixes-release-6-2.R.noarch.rpm > russianfedora-fixes-release-6-2.R.noarch.rpm
[root@1857c0d2c37b /]# rpm -Uvh russianfedora-fixes-release-6-2.R.noarch.rpm
[root@1857c0d2c37b /]# yum install -y make

After that, the version of make is 3.82:

[root@1857c0d2c37b /]# make --version
GNU Make 3.82
Built for x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu
Copyright (C) 2010  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

If you want to have it already in a container, just put the commands into a Dockerfile like this:

FROM centos:6.6

WORKDIR /root

RUN yum -y update && yum clean all; \
    curl http://mirror.yandex.ru/fedora/russianfedora/russianfedora/fixes/el/releases/6/Everything/i386/os/russianfedora-fixes-release-6-2.R.noarch.rpm > russianfedora-fixes-release-6-2.R.noarch.rpm && \
    rpm -Uvh russianfedora-fixes-release-6-2.R.noarch.rpm && \
    yum install -y make

CMD bash

And then build and run your image.

Looking for the package through rpmfind.net shows make 3.82 available starting with CentOS 7. I tried installing that one as well, but there are too many unmet dependencies.

How to specify installation path of docker on CentOS6.5?

You can use official docker instruction to install docker-ce on CentOS.
For installing in a specific path, you can use yum install command with --installroot=root switch. Something like this:

sudo yum install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io --installroot=/opt/docker

How to install docker-compose on Linux RHEL 6.6?

RHEL 6 is not recommended and not supported for Docker use.

There was many addition made to recent version of Linux kernels that allows Docker, but they are missing on RHEL 6 because it is designed to be an enterprise system with very long term support (10 years).

Simply put it is too old, and Red Hat themselves aren't porting Docker on it.

Install docker specific version on Centos7 machine

On Centos
For Docker CE Versions

sudo curl -SsL https://download.docker.com/linux/centos/docker-ce.repo -o /etc/yum.repos.d/docker-ce.repo

Now to Install specific Docker versions on Centos/Fedora
For Latest Docker CE versions (≥17.06.0 CE)

sudo yum --showduplicates list docker-ce
sudo yum install docker-ce-17.06.0.ce-1.el7.centos
or
sudo yum install docker-ce-17.06.0.ce-1.fc25

check for reference
https://medium.com/@gauravsj9/how-to-install-specific-docker-version-on-linux-machine-d0ec2d4095

Options to use latest docker on centos 6?

You can try to use a static binary to run docker, but this is all at your own risk; CentOS 6 runs on kernel 2.6, which is 13 years old now. That kernel misses various things needed to run Docker (e.g. Overlay networking is not supported), and is known for having some issues.

Note that running docker-in-docker may get you around "installing" docker 1.10, but will still run on the same kernel, so you'll end up with the same issues

Install docker on RedHatLinux 6.7

Below steps do work for Docker to be installed on OEL 6.10 with a user having super user privileges.

1. Create a user with SUDO Access as suggested in Red-Hat Docs ([Link][1] speaks well on this process). For instance I created an user as docker with group as docker.

   groupadd docker  
   useradd -m -g docker docker
   

2. Add docker repository for installing latest copy of Docker for RHEL/Centos 6

   yum update -y  
   yum install epel-release  
   vi /etc/yum.repos.d/docker.repo   
   

3. Add below contents to /etc/yum.repos.d/docker.repo

   [docker-repo]  
   name=Docker Repo  
   baseurl=https://yum.dockerproject.org/repo/main/centos/6/  
   enabled=1  
   gpgcheck=1  
   gpgkey=https://yum.dockerproject.org/gpg  
   

4. Switch to "docker" user and execute below commands:

   sudo yum install -y docker-engine

5. Post Installation start docker using below commands.

   sudo chkconfig docker on  
   
   sudo service docker start  
   Starting cgconfig service:                                 [  OK  ]  
   Starting docker:                                           [  OK  ]  
   
   sudo service docker status  
   docker (pid  26925) is running...  
   
   ps -ef | grep docker  
   root     25590 14123  0 Jul27 ?        00:00:00 sshd: docker [priv]  
   docker   25594 25590  0 Jul27 ?        00:00:00 sshd: docker@pts/1  
   docker   25595 25594  0 Jul27 pts/1    00:00:00 -bash  
   root     26925     1  2 00:00 pts/1    00:00:00 /usr/bin/docker -d  
   docker   27106 25595  0 00:00 pts/1    00:00:00 ps -ef  
   docker   27107 25595  0 00:00 pts/1    00:00:00 grep docker  
   
   docker ps -a  
   CONTAINER ID        IMAGE               COMMAND             CREATED             STATUS              PORTS               NAMES  
   

   [1]: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux_OpenStack_Platform/2/html/Getting_Started_Guide/ch02s03.html

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