Data Structure
Networking
RDBMS
Operating System
Java
MS Excel
iOS
HTML
CSS
Android
Python
C Programming
C++
C#
MongoDB
MySQL
Javascript
PHP
Physics
Chemistry
Biology
Mathematics
English
Economics
Psychology
Social Studies
Fashion Studies
Legal Studies
- Selected Reading
- UPSC IAS Exams Notes
- Developer's Best Practices
- Questions and Answers
- Effective Resume Writing
- HR Interview Questions
- Computer Glossary
- Who is Who
How to install and use docker and containers on centos 7
In this article, we will learn how to install Dockers. Dockers is a very good tool which runs the application on its own containers. It works like a virtual machine which are more portable and more resource friendly and more dependent on the host OS. There are two methods of installing Docker on CentOS 7. First method is to by installation using the existing OS or spinning the server with a tool called Docker Machine and making the auto installation.
Here for demo purpose, we will install on the existing OS.
Installing the Docker on CentOS 7
Before we begin the installation we need CentOS 7 64 bit and need a user who is non root with sudo permissions. Docker installation is available in the official CentOS 7 repository which is not the latest version. In order to get the latest version, we will install the Dockers from the Dockers Official repository.
$ sudo yum check-update
Now run the below command to add the official Docker repository and download the latest version of the dockers and install it.
$ curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com/ | sh
Remember that you will have to log out and back in for this to take effect!
After the installation has completed, we need to start the Docker daemon with the below command
$ sudo systemctl start docker
To know the docker services running or not we can run the below command
$ sudo systemctl status docker
We needed to enable the docker to start at the boot time, we needed to run the below command
$ sudo systemctl enable docker
Adding the Current user to Docker Group
We needed to add the current user to the Docker group on the system which was enabled by the installation without that we cannot run the docker command line utility with non root user.
$ sudo usermod –aG docker $(whoami)
Or
$ sudo usermond –aG docker username
Using the Docker Command
As we just installed the Docker installed and working, we needed to learn some command line utility with some sub-command and arguments
$ docker [option] [command] [arguments]
To view all the sub-commands we needed to type the below command
$ docker CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES [root@centos-linux-1 ~]# docker Usage: docker [OPTIONS] COMMAND [arg...] docker daemon [ --help | ... ] docker [ --help | -v | --version ] A self-sufficient runtime for containers. Options: --config=~/.docker Location of client config files -D, --debug Enable debug mode -H, --host=[] Daemon socket(s) to connect to -h, --help Print usage -l, --log-level=info Set the logging level --tls Use TLS; implied by --tlsverify --tlscacert=~/.docker/ca.pem Trust certs signed only by this CA --tlscert=~/.docker/cert.pem Path to TLS certificate file --tlskey=~/.docker/key.pem Path to TLS key file --tlsverify Use TLS and verify the remote -v, --version Print version information and quit Sub Commands: attach Attach to a running container build Build an image from a Dockerfile commit Create a new image from a container's changes cp Copy files/folders between a container and the local filesystem create Create a new container diff Inspect changes on a container's filesystem events Get real time events from the server exec Run a command in a running container export Export a container's filesystem as a tar archive history Show the history of an image images List images import Import the contents from a tarball to create a filesystem image info Display system-wide information inspect Return low-level information on a container or image kill Kill a running container load Load an image from a tar archive or STDIN login Log in to a Docker registry logout Log out from a Docker registry logs Fetch the logs of a container network Manage Docker networks pause Pause all processes within a container port List port mappings or a specific mapping for the CONTAINER ps List containers pull Pull an image or a repository from a registry push Push an image or a repository to a registry rename Rename a container restart Restart a container rm Remove one or more containers rmi Remove one or more images run Run a command in a new container save Save one or more images to a tar archive search Search the Docker Hub for images start Start one or more stopped containers stats Display a live stream of container(s) resource usage statistics stop Stop a running container tag Tag an image into a repository top Display the running processes of a container unpause Unpause all processes within a container update Update configuration of one or more containers version Show the Docker version information volume Manage Docker volumes wait Block until a container stops, then print its exit code
Working with Docker Images
Docker images are used to run the Docker containers which pulls the images from Dockers Hub.
To check whether we have access to the Dockers Hub, run the below command
$ docker run hello-world
We can search for the images available on the Docker Hub by using the docker command with sub-command search for example we will search for CentOS images, below is the command to search for CentOS image on Docker Hub.
[root@centos-linux-1 ~]# docker search centos
NAME DESCRIPTION STARS OFFICIAL AUTOMATED centos The official build of CentOS. 2417 [OK] ansible/centos7-ansible Ansible on Centos7 80 [OK] jdeathe/centos-ssh CentOS-6 6.8 x86_64 / CentOS-7 7.2.1511 x8... 26 [OK] nimmis/java-centos This is docker images of CentOS 7 with dif... 13 [OK] million12/centos-supervisor Base CentOS-7 with supervisord launcher, h... 12 [OK] consol/centos-xfce-vnc Centos container with "headless" VNC sessi... 10 [OK] torusware/speedus-centos Always updated official CentOS docker imag... 8 [OK] jdeathe/centos-ssh-mysql CentOS-6 6.7 x86_64 / MySQL. 7 [OK] nickistre/centos-lamp LAMP on centos setup 4 [OK] centos/mariadb55-centos7 3 [OK] nathonfowlie/centos-jre Latest CentOS image with the JRE pre-insta... 3 [OK] consol/sakuli-centos-xfce Sakuli end-2-end testing and monitoring co... 2 [OK] blacklabelops/centos CentOS Base Image! Built and Updates Daily! 1 [OK] darksheer/centos Base Centos Image -- Updated hourly 1 [OK] timhughes/centos Centos with systemd installed and running 1 [OK] grayzone/centos auto build for centos. 0 [OK] ustclug/centos USTC centos 0 [OK] januswel/centos yum update-ed CentOS image 0 [OK] kz8s/centos Official CentOS plus epel-release 0 [OK] grossws/centos CentOS 6 and 7 base images with gosu and l... 0 [OK] harisekhon/centos-scala Scala + CentOS (OpenJDK tags 2.10-jre7 - 2... 0 [OK] jsmigel/centos-epel Docker base image of CentOS w/ EPEL installed 0 [OK] ericuni/centos centos dev 0 [OK] dmglab/centos CentOS with some extras - This is for the ... 0 [OK] repositoryjp/centos Docker Image for CentOS. 0 [OK]
To Download the Docker Image to Locally
We can download the images from Dockers Hub, below is the command to download a docker images using pull command
$ docker pull centos docker pull centos Using default tag: latest latest: Pulling from library/centos 0653bff3c5cf: Extracting 29.52 MB/70.6 MB Message from syslogd@centos-linux-1 at Jul 11 08:06:44 ... 0653bff3c5cf: Pull complete Digest: sha256:81e4f2f663eaa1bf46ff9be348396dd7053734b257ef4147d7133d6f25bbf7cf Status: Downloaded newer image for centos:latest
We can use run sub-command to run the image which we downloaded
$ docker run centos
And to see the images downloaded to our computer with below command
$ docker images docker images REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE centos latest 05188b417f30 9 days ago 196.8 MB hello-world latest c54a2cc56cbb 9 days ago 1.848 kB
Running the Docker Container
As we have downloaded a Container images to the local system, we will run the container using the latest image of CentOS with –i and –t switches which gives the interactive shell to the container
$ docker run –it centos [root@0aac55bf786f /]#
The prompt will be changes to the container id “0aac55bf786f” is the id of the container which we downloaded
We can install some software on the container using the below command we will install mysql server on the container
[root@0aac55bf786f /]# yum install mysql-server
After install the mysql on the container we can commit the changes to the Dockers hub with the below command with –m switch which uses to commit message and –a for adding author name
General Syntax $ docker commit -m "What did you do to the image" -a "Author Name" container-id repository/new_image_name
Example $ docker commit -m "added MySQL-server" -a "Chandra Prakash" 0aac55bf786f finid/centos-mysql_db sha256:77993fb3b476e02324b8bf7ebfebe1e792b93df2eecc70208997ac95455c65e8
To Confirm the Image has submitted and listed in the local repository, you can run the below command.
$ docker images REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE finid/centos-mysql_db latest 77993fb3b476 28 seconds ago 268.4 MB centos latest 05188b417f30 9 days ago 196.8 MB hello-world latest c54a2cc56cbb 9 days ago 1.848 kB
After the setup and configuration we have learned the basis of the Dockers and its Containers and who to pull the images and use them and install some softwares, with Dockers we can do a whole lot and more, in further articles we will learn more.
708 Views
To Continue Learning Please Login