Installing docker and docker-compose on CentOS 7

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Most of the content in this article is from a great article by Sofija Simic on phoenixnap. I’ll be keeping this short, so please head over there if you would like more details about some of these steps.

Open the you terminal and run the following commands

Update packages:

sudo yum check-update

Install Dependencies:

sudo yum install -y yum-utils device-mapper-persistent-data lvm2

Add the Docker Repository:

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

Install Docker:

sudo yum install docker

Install Docker Compose:

sudo yum install docker-compose