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I guess that Red Hat will have to keep supporting it with security updates then?

• nickstinemates 11y ago
  As per their support model for 6.x, but, in the description: RedHat themselves only support Docker on RHEL7 (as stated by https://access.redhat.com/solutions/1378023 https://access.redhat.com/solutions/1378023, and confirmed by several people)
  • visualphoenix 11y ago
    Right but this is odd considering they used to support it and only quietly updated their support document in May. If a fellow issue commenter on github hadn't linked to it I (and everyone else) would have missed it.
    • nickstinemates 11y ago
      I don't know what they've said when publicly, but the intention of 6.x on their end related to support for Docker has always been best efforts in terms of their support practices. Docker support by Red Hat in RHEL7 is actually a compelling differentiation they use in the field to get their existing customer base to upgrade. This conversation goes back to the moment we started talking about it before the announcement[1] in September 2013 1: http://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-and-dotcloud-collaborate-on-docker-to-bring-next-generation-linux-container-enhancements-to-openshift http://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-and-do...
• kokey 11y ago
  Docker isn't part of RHEL, it's only available on RHEL6 as part of EPEL. The EPEL package maintainers will, in theory, keep supporting the rather old version of Docker (1.5) in EPEL for another 5 years.
  • rdtsc 11y ago
    Not necessarily. EPEL is based mostly on volunteer effort. Package are supported only if there is active interest. If those mainters move on to something, Docker 1.5 will be orphaned and then removed from the repo.