This page works as expected if I choose Ubuntu 14.04 image.
https://docs.docker.com/engine/installation/cloud/cloud-ex-aws/
But If I choose Amazon Linux AMI, (the first one in the list shown in the image) then I am not able to install 1.12 version of docker.
I can however install older version using ...
yum install docker
But I am trying to install the latest 1.12 version on Amazon Linux AMI. Any suggestion will be appreciated.
I managed to get Docker 1.12.2 running on Amazon Linux. Here are the steps I took:
Download the version of Docker you want to your Amazon Linux instance (as a gzipped tar), and extract it. This creates a directory called docker/ containing Docker binaries.
wget https://get.docker.com/builds/Linux/x86_64/docker-1.12.2.tgz
tar -xvzf docker-1.12.2.tgz
Move all the Docker binaries into /usr/local/bin.
sudo mv docker/* /usr/local/bin/
You need to run a script called cgroupfs-mount (as superuser) before starting up the Docker daemon. The easiest way to get this script is by cloning the git repo containing it.
git clone https://github.com/tianon/cgroupfs-mount
sudo mv cgroupfs-mount/cgroupfs-mount /usr/local/bin/
Change to the superuser and make sure that /usr/local/bin/ is in your path (on Amazon Linux at least this is not the case by default).
sudo su
export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
Now you can run the cgroupfs-mount script and start the Docker daemon (as a background process).
cgroupfs-mount
dockerd &
You can call regular Docker commands (e.g. docker pull) as any user who belongs to the docker group, while dockerd is running. Missing from these installation steps is having cgroupfs-mount and dockerd be automatically run at start up time.
As an aside, I would recommend avoiding Amazon Linux if at all possible and using a mainstream distro like Ubuntu or CentOS instead, which seem to have much better support for Docker.
Update: January 2017
Amazon offer docker 1.12 in repository of updates (amzn-updates).
I have installed docker-1.12.6-1.17.amzn1.x86_64
As of mid-October 2016, this is not possible: https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/27313
Long story short, it appears that there needs to be some coordination between the AWS & Docker folks and that coordination hasn't happened yet: https://github.com/docker/docker/pull/17283#issuecomment-163456402
Couple options:
Wait until that process completes and a new AWS Linux AMI is released where when you could just run $ sudo yum install -y docker and be more or less up & running w/ 1.12
Select a different AMI which will require additional installation/config depending on your requirements
ex. You mentioned you tried the Ubuntu 14.04 AMI. If you SSH'd to that instance & tried to copy some large files from S3 and unzip them on the host machine in order to mount them as volumes into your containers, you'd have a problem. The Ubuntu 14.04 AMI doesn't have the aws-cli tool installed nor the "unzip" command out of the box (nor docker for that matter)-- so you'd need to read over http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/installing.html#install-bundle-other-os and run $ sudo apt-get unzip in order to get up and running. The AWS Linux AMI has a lot more bells & whistles out of the box. If you don't mind the config work and using a slightly different repository system, this isn't a bad option in the meantime.)
I don't know why your manual steps don't work but you can install the docker daemon using docker-machine.
VM_OPTS="--driver amazonec2
--amazonec2-ami $YOUR-AMI
--amazonec2-instance-type t2.medium
--amazonec2-access-key $AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
--amazonec2-secret-key $AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
--amazonec2-ssh-keypath $AWS_SSH_KEYPATH
--amazonec2-region ap-southeast-2
--amazonec2-zone a
--amazonec2-security-group $YOUR_SEC_GROUP_NAME"
docker-machine create $VM_OPTS $VM_NAME
You can also install it from the command line of the instance using the following:
curl -sSL https://get.docker.com/ | sh
(like in How to upgrade docker in latest Amazon linux AMI )
https://docs.docker.com/samples/library/amazonlinux/ The latest Amazon Linux 2017.09 seems to have Docker version 17.06.2-ce
