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When will Docker support distros other than Ubuntu?
by likeclockwork 13y ago
When will Docker support distros other than Ubuntu?
- jpetazzo 13y agoThere is already some support for Gentoo and Archlinux, and if you are willing to use a "foreign" kernel, Red Hat / Fedora / CentOS work as well. There is some significant work in progress to add compatibility for non-AUFS systems. I don't have an accurate timeline at this point, but expect something (or at least an announcement) at the end of the month!
- jlgreco 13y agoGood to hear. I've played around with Docker a bit but I don't have a compelling enough use for it yet to keep on building AUFS kernels.
- gcr 13y agoLast I checked, using Docker on Arch required a custom kernel with the AUFS patch. Is that still true? Edit: yes, docker on arch still requires a custom kernel. See http://docs.docker.io/en/latest/installation/archlinux/ http://docs.docker.io/en/latest/installation/archlinux/
- jpetazzo 13y agoYeah, still true, but we are actively working on an alternate implementation to be compatible with anything post 3.2 and RHEL 6.4 as well.
- shykes 13y agoJust to confirm that we're planning to remove the dependency on aufs for the 0.7 release (late September). As a result docker will run on vanilla linux kernels. aufs will probably come back as a plugin in a future version. aufs is great and I wish we could keep it as the default. But the kernel politics are what they are.
- willvarfar 13y agopost 6.4 means > or >=? Will it run on my ec2 rhel 6.4 out-of-the-box?
- likeclockwork 13y agoThanks for the information!