How To Install docker-latest on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install docker-latest on CentOS 7.
What is docker-latest
Docker is an open-source engine that automates the deployment of any application as a lightweight, portable, self-sufficient container that will run virtually anywhere. Docker containers can encapsulate any payload, and will run consistently on and between virtually any server. The same container that a developer builds and tests on a laptop will run at scale, in production*, on VMs, bare-metal servers, OpenStack clusters, public instances, or combinations of the above.
We can use yum or dnf to install docker-latest on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install docker-latest.
Install docker-latest on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install docker-latest using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install docker-latest
Install docker-latest on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install docker-latest using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install docker-latest
How To Uninstall docker-latest on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the docker-latest package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove docker-latest
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install docker-latest on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
