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Specify docker engine version with docker machine

docker-machine creates new instances with the latest docker engine version.

Is it possible to specify the docker engine version?

The docker-machine create command has a --engine-install-url option. However I was not able to find version specific URLs (https://get.docker.com/).

Solution

  • From issue 2029, you should use the docker-machine create --virtualbox-boot2docker-url option instead.

    You can see an example in issue 2195:

    docker-machine create -d virtualbox --virtualbox-boot2docker-url=https://github.com/boot2docker/boot2docker/releases/download/v1.8.3/boot2docker.iso 183

    Obviously, this would not work for more recent docker on Windows with HyperV.