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Upgrading Docker on Amazon Linux AMI

I want to upgrade Docker to v1.8 on Amazon Linux.

At the time of writing their internal yum package repository has: Docker version 1.7.1, build 786b29d/1.7.1.

Things I have already tried

Manually installing from the Docker project's repo

Error: Package: docker-engine-1.8.2-1.el7.centos.x86_64 (dockerrepo) Requires: systemd-units

Solution

  • I ended up installing the Amazon Linux docker package and then overwriting the /usr/bin/docker binary with the 1.8.2 version binary from: https://docs.docker.com/installation/binaries/.

    Not exactly elegant - but all of the dependencies are the same, and seeing as my AMI is immutable the package won't be upgraded on top of the current image.