Install Docker on CentOS 8 – Automatically!

Docker doesn’t come with “stock” repos on CentOS, some variations of alias programs are installations like podman.

These lack many of the core commands of the “real” Docker.

Here is a guide to install Docker Latest Version on CentOS.

sudo yum clean all -y
sudo yum update -y
sudo yum upgrade -y

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

# if the above fails, try the latest compatible via
sudo dnf install docker-ce --nobest -y

sudo groupadd docker
sudo usermod -aG docker $USER

sudo systemctl enable docker.service
sudo systemctl start docker.service

# you may need to log out and in to be able to run docker commands as non-root user