Install and Setup Docker On CentOS Stream 8

Install and Setup Docker On CentOS Stream 8, the docker repo should be installed first, and then install it by yum, the default centos does not distribute docker packages.

Set up the repository

Install the yum-utils package (which provides the yum-config-manager utility) and set up the repository.

sudo yum install -y yum-utils
sudo yum-config-manager \
    --add-repo \
    https://download.docker.com/linux/centos/docker-ce.repo

Install Docker Engine

sudo yum install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-buildx-plugin docker-compose-plugin

Install Specific version

To install a specific version, start by listing the available versions in the repository:

# yum list docker-ce --showduplicates | sort -r
Installed Packages
docker-ce.x86_64               3:23.0.0-1.el8                  docker-ce-stable 
docker-ce.x86_64               3:23.0.0-1.el8                  @docker-ce-stable
docker-ce.x86_64               3:20.10.9-3.el8                 docker-ce-stable 
docker-ce.x86_64               3:20.10.8-3.el8                 docker-ce-stable 
docker-ce.x86_64               3:20.10.7-3.el8                 docker-ce-stable 
docker-ce.x86_64               3:20.10.6-3.el8                 docker-ce-stable 
docker-ce.x86_64               3:20.10.5-3.el8                 docker-ce-stable 
docker-ce.x86_64               3:20.10.4-3.el8                 docker-ce-stable 
docker-ce.x86_64               3:20.10.3-3.el8                 docker-ce-stable 
docker-ce.x86_64               3:20.10.2-3.el8                 docker-ce-stable 
docker-ce.x86_64               3:20.10.23-3.el8                docker-ce-stable 
docker-ce.x86_64               3:20.10.22-3.el8                docker-ce-stable 
docker-ce.x86_64               3:20.10.21-3.el8                docker-ce-stable 
docker-ce.x86_64               3:20.10.20-3.el8                docker-ce-stable 
docker-ce.x86_64               3:20.10.19-3.el8                docker-ce-stable 
docker-ce.x86_64               3:20.10.18-3.el8                docker-ce-stable 
docker-ce.x86_64               3:20.10.17-3.el8                docker-ce-stable 
docker-ce.x86_64               3:20.10.16-3.el8                docker-ce-stable 
docker-ce.x86_64               3:20.10.15-3.el8                docker-ce-stable 
docker-ce.x86_64               3:20.10.14-3.el8                docker-ce-stable 
docker-ce.x86_64               3:20.10.1-3.el8                 docker-ce-stable 
docker-ce.x86_64               3:20.10.13-3.el8                docker-ce-stable 
docker-ce.x86_64               3:20.10.12-3.el8                docker-ce-stable 
docker-ce.x86_64               3:20.10.11-3.el8                docker-ce-stable 
docker-ce.x86_64               3:20.10.10-3.el8                docker-ce-stable 
docker-ce.x86_64               3:20.10.0-3.el8                 docker-ce-stable 
docker-ce.x86_64               3:19.03.15-3.el8                docker-ce-stable 
docker-ce.x86_64               3:19.03.14-3.el8                docker-ce-stable 
docker-ce.x86_64               3:19.03.13-3.el8                docker-ce-stable 
Available Packages

Install a specific version by its fully qualified package name, which is the package name (docker-ce) plus the version string (2nd column) starting at the first colon (:), up to the first hyphen, separated by a hyphen (-). For example, docker-ce-20.10.9.

Replace <VERSION_STRING> with the desired version and then run the following command to install:

sudo yum install docker-ce-<VERSION_STRING> docker-ce-cli-<VERSION_STRING> containerd.io docker-buildx-plugin docker-compose-plugin

Start Docker

systemctl enable docker
systemctl start docker

Uninstall docker

sudo yum remove docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-buildx-plugin docker-compose-plugin docker-ce-rootless-extras

sudo rm -rf /var/lib/docker
sudo rm -rf /var/lib/containerd