Install Docker on Linux (Ubuntu/CentOS)

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A. CentOS

OS requirements

To install Docker Engine, you need a maintained version of one of the following CentOS versions:

• CentOS 7
• CentOS 8 (stream)
• CentOS 9 (stream)

Set up the repository

 sudo yum install -y yum-utils
 sudo yum-config-manager \
    --add-repo \
    https://download.docker.com/linux/centos/docker-ce.repo

Install Docker Engine

To install the latest version, run:

sudo yum install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-compose-plugin

To install a specific version:

yum list docker-ce --showduplicates | sort -r
sudo yum install docker-ce-<VERSION_STRING> docker-ce-cli-<VERSION_STRING> containerd.io docker-compose-plugin

Enable & Start Docker

systemctl enable --now docker

Verify

docker -v
docker info

B. Ubuntu

OS requirements

To install Docker Engine, you need the 64-bit version of one of these Ubuntu versions:

• Ubuntu Kinetic 22.10
• Ubuntu Jammy 22.04 (LTS)
• Ubuntu Focal 20.04 (LTS)
• Ubuntu Bionic 18.04 (LTS)

Set up the repository

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install \
    ca-certificates \
    curl \
    gnupg \
    lsb-release
    
sudo mkdir -p /etc/apt/keyrings
curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg

echo \
  "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu \
  $(lsb_release -cs) stable" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null

Install Docker Engine

To install the latest version, run:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-compose-plugin

To install a specific version of Docker Engine:

# List the available versions:
apt-cache madison docker-ce | awk '{ print $3 }'

VERSION_STRING=5:20.10.13~3-0~ubuntu-jammy
sudo apt-get install docker-ce=$VERSION_STRING docker-ce-cli=$VERSION_STRING containerd.io docker-compose-plugin

Enable & Start Docker

systemctl enable --now docker

Verify

docker -v
docker info

Reference

Install Docker Engine on CentOS

Install Docker Engine on CentOS

Docker Documentation

Install Docker Engine on Ubuntu

Instructions for installing Docker Engine on Ubuntu

Docker Documentation