Docker CE on RHEL - Requires: container-selinux >= 2.9

Question

I am trying to install Docker CE on RHEL using this link. This is my RHEL version:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.3 (Mai         


        

Answer 1

Update June 2019

What a dogs dinner. Unfortunately, the other answers didn't work for me.

For the most part, the official docker instructions for installing using a repository DID work.

sudo yum install -y yum-utils \
  device-mapper-persistent-data \
  lvm2

Followed by:

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

However, I had to modify the next command as follows (adding --nobest):

sudo yum install docker-ce --nobest

Finally, check the docker client:

docker --version
Docker version 18.09.7, build 2d0083d

Note also, the above works for standard RHEL AMI on AWS, but not for the Amazon Linux AMI type. May also find referencing this github issue insightful.

Added bonus, I found the following additional commands helpful:

Start the docker daemon:

sudo systemctl start docker.service

Give the current user (in my case ec2-user - check with whoami) rights to the docker group. This avoids running everything with sudo.

sudo usermod -aG docker $USER

Now, logoff and login again as same user as before (in my case ec2-user).

At this point, everything should be working. Check the docker daemon:

docker image ls
REPOSITORY          TAG                 IMAGE ID            CREATED             SIZE