This guide uses Debian as base image to run docker on. Let me just quickly point out that we are working on getting Docker available as a proper Debian package (all dependencies are in place, a bit of work has to be done on the Docker package still).
Once that work is done, you’ll be able to apt-get install docker and have it just work. No more scary downloading of binaries from some server that may or may not be run by docker.io ;).
I am fairly amazed by the low quality of packaging in Linux distributions these days. I’ve looked at what Arch Linux and Gentoo do, and they just use docker.io’s blob and redistribute that. In Debian we are going to build the package from source.
Hi everyone, I see a lot of comments and questions on the state of packaging for Docker in various distros. Recently we started working closely with maintainers of major distros, and making sure we made their life as easy as possible, while continuing to ship our own upstream builds on average once a week. This required a few compromises - for example supporting dynamically linked builds of docker, which introduces some complexity in the codebase but saves everyone a lot drama and quasi-religious flamewars on distro mailing lists. Sometimes you have to pick your battles...
The result, I think, is that the availability and quality of docker builds on various distro has improved a lot.
This is in great part thanks to the hard work of Tianon Gravi (https://github.com/tianon) who handles PR (Packagers Relations) for Docker and is doing a phenomenal job. The packagers we work with are particularly nice and awesome too, special thanks to Paul Tagliamonte from Debian who has been super supportive and patient with us as we slowly got our act together. More recently the Fedora team has been really receptive too.
Lastly thanks to Proppy from the Google team for contributing these docs!
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I'm getting tired of seeing frequent, uninteresting docker-did-x, docker-says-y announcements here. Can we save it for major features that matter please?
Once that work is done, you’ll be able to apt-get install docker and have it just work. No more scary downloading of binaries from some server that may or may not be run by docker.io ;).
I am fairly amazed by the low quality of packaging in Linux distributions these days. I’ve looked at what Arch Linux and Gentoo do, and they just use docker.io’s blob and redistribute that. In Debian we are going to build the package from source.