Install Docker and docker-compose on Amazon Linux

I often have to deploy an AWS instance running on Amazon Linux and using it to deploy Docker containers.

As Amazon Linux don’t come with Docker preinstalled, you have to do it manually. Or even better, through a script in the user-data section of your launch template.

Here’s the script you’ll need to install the latest version of Docker and docker-compose.

# Install docker
sudo yum install docker
sudo usermod -aG docker ec2-user

# Install docker-compose
sudo curl -L https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/latest/download/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m) -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose && sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

# Verify install
docker --version
docker-compose version

Written on March 20th, 2020 by Samy Gejzenblozen

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#AWS #Docker

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