Wednesday, September 14, 2016

Can we install Docker in Linux older versions?

Docker requires a 64-bit installation regardless of your Red Hat version. Docker requires that your kernel must be 3.10 at minimum, which Red Hat 7 runs.

Docker is supported on the following versions of RHEL:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (64-bit)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 (64-bit) or later



The Red Hat provided, maintained, and supported version of Docker is only available on RHEL 7.

Red Hat does not recommend running any version of Docker on any RHEL 6 releases. Docker feature developments are tied to RHEL7 infrastructure components for kernel, devicemapper (thin provisioning, direct lvm), sVirt and systemd.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 Installation

You will need 64 bit RHEL 6.5 or later, with a RHEL 6 kernel version 2.6.32-431 or higher as this has specific kernel fixes to allow Docker to work.

Docker is available for RHEL6.5 on EPEL. Please note that this package is part of Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL), a community effort to create and maintain additional packages for the RHEL distribution.

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