This tutorial explains, how to install docker on EC2 Instance. Before starting, let’s have some brief knowledge about Docker.
Docker is a platform that combines applications and its dependencies in the form of packages, called container. We can run multiple containers on a single Operating System. Containers are not Virtual Machines. Virtual Machines requires Operating System to run applications, but containers do not. As containers don’t need an Operating System, it takes very little time to start and hence it is very faster than Virtual Machines.
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Finally, install Docker: sudo apt install docker-ce Docker should now be installed, the daemon started, and the process enabled to start on boot. Check that it’s running: sudo systemctl status docker The output should be similar to the following, showing that the service is active and running. Install Linux Deploy, JuiceSSH, in Linux Deploy install kalilinuxarm (u need the piggy helper and enable the SSH) and type: sudo apt update sudo apt install golang git build-essential libpcap-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev libnetfilter-queue-dev. Let’s Install Docker on EC2 Instance. In this tutorial, we will use Amazon Linux to install docker. Amazon Linux/Amazon Linux2 is the Linux Operating System used in EC2 Instance. Step 1– Log to Linux EC2 Instance and update it. $ sudo yum update -y. Step 2– Install docker using Yum command $ sudo yum install docker -y.
and Launching Amazon Linux EC2 Instance
Let’s Install Docker on EC2 Instance
In this tutorial, we will use Amazon Linux to install docker. Amazon Linux/Amazon Linux2 is the Linux Operating System used in EC2 Instance.
Step 1– Log to Linux EC2 Instance and update it.
$ sudo yum update -y
Step 2– Install docker using Yum command
$ sudo yum install docker -y
Step 3– Start Docker Service
$ Service docker start
Step 4– Check docker Version.
$ docker -v
Basic Configuration (Creating Docker File / Running Docker Image)
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Step 1 – Create a docker file
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Dockerfile is a text file where we write instructions to build an image.
Create a folder name Images on the Amazon Linux box.
$ mkdir images
Move to folder images
$ cd images
Create a file name Dockerfile inside images folder
$ nano Dockerfile
Put the content in the following way inside the Dockerfile.
FROM Ubuntu ( It will use the Official image Ubuntu to build your image)
MAINTAINER chandan <[email protected]>
( It sets the Author field of the generated image)
RUN apt-get update ( It will update the image at the time of Build)
CMD [ “echo”, ” Hello World ……….! “] ( It will run echo command when we run the docker container image)
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Step 2– Run the docker build command to build the image.
$ docker build .
Note : ( . command is used when you are inside images folder where Dockerfile is present, alternatively you can put the docker file absolute path like /home/ec2-user/images/Dockerfile)
You can run the following command as well to Name and tag your Image. Here myimage is the Name and 01 is Tag of the image.
$ docker build -t myimage:01 .
Step 3– See the Docker Images after build
$ docker images
Step 4 – Run the docker image
$ docker run 07deaa33585e
Here 07deaa33585e is the IMAGE ID that can be seen in docker images command.
You can see here, it executed the echo command as soon as we run the docker image. In the same way, we can run any script, commands or any application by running a docker image.
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To install Docker on Kali you need to remember that there is already a package named “docker”, therefore Docker has to be installed under a different name. If you install docker you will not end up with the container version. The version we will be installing is named docker.io. All commands are the same however, so running docker on the command line will be the appropriate command.
You can now get started with using docker, with sudo. If you want to add yourself to the docker group to use docker without sudo, an additional step is needed:
The final thing is to logout and in again.
If you would like to use a Kali Docker image, we have a doc page for that here.
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Installing docker-ce on Kali Linux
docker-ce can be installed from Docker repository. One thing to bare in mind, Kali Linux is based on Debian, so we need to use Debian’s current stable version (even though Kali Linux is a rolling distribution). At the time of writing, its “buster”:
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Import the gpg key:
Fingerprint checking:
Install the latest version of docker-ce:
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