Install Docker and Docker Compose on Oracle Linux

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Today we’re going to see how to install Docker and Docker Compose on Oracle Linux.

The first thing we’re going to do is update the system

sudo yum check-update

Then we add the Docker repository

dnf config-manager --add-repo=https://download.docker.com/linux/centos/docker-ce.repo

Now we install Docker

dnf install docker-ce -y

And it will start installing

Once installed, we need to enable Docker to run on system restart

sudo systemctl start docker
sudo systemctl enable docker

And now we can run Docker

docker run hello-world

Docker Compose is installed along with Docker, to run it we’ll use

sudo docker compose version

If we need to run Docker without root

We create the docker group:

 sudo groupadd docker

We add the user to the docker group:

 sudo usermod -aG docker $USER

We activate the group changes

 newgrp docker

Now we can run commands without sudo

 docker run hello-world

If we need to remove Docker or Docker Compose

• First, stop Docker

systemctl stop docker

Remove Docker

dnf remove docker-ce -y

And remove Docker Compose

rm -rf /usr/local/bin/docker-compose