Installing Latest Docker Server On Ubuntu 14.04

Overview

Docker is becoming a very popular software container for Linux based deployments. It allows software to be wrapped into containers and deployed onto the server. The container is “jailed” so that it’s processes cannot interfer with others (a sandboxing effect). The container is immutable so any new software deployments would require the software to be re-imaged and deployed but this based on a template which is used to create the image. The containers can be deployed multiple times on different servers so long as Docker is installed (similar to a war file in Java).

Install

Add Docker reposoitory key to keychain:
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys 36A1D7869245C8950F966E92D8576A8BA88D21E9

Create the file which will tell Apt where the Docker repository is:
touch /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list

Edit the above file and add the following to it:

deb https://get.docker.io/ubuntu docker main

Update Apt with the new repository:
sudo apt-get update

Install Docker:
sudo apt-get install lxc-docker

Summary

That’s it! Docker is really easy to install but the hard part is setting up your image.

Install Docker On Ubuntu

About Danny

I.T software professional always studying and applying the knowledge gained and one way of doing this is to blog. Danny also has participates in a part time project called Energy@Home [http://code.google.com/p/energyathome/] for monitoring energy usage on a premise. Dedicated to I.T since studying pure Information Technology since the age of 16, Danny Tsang working in the field that he has aimed for since leaving school. View all posts by Danny → This entry was posted in Linux, Software and tagged Container, Docker, images, Linux, LXC, Ubuntu. Bookmark the permalink.

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