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How to install Docker on Amazon Linux

Linux Docker installation

This tutorial explains how to install Docker on Amazon Linux 2

Install Docker



sudo amazon-linux-extras install docker

Start Docker service



sudo service docker start

Verify Docker installation



docker --version

Ouput



Docker version 19.03.13-ce, build 4484c46

If you are seeing output as shown above, than Docker is successfully installed.

Now Docker is up and running with Sudo permissions, lets add user to docker, so that docker command commands can be executed without Sudo access

Add user to docker group



sudo usermod -a -G docker ""username""
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