Hi there to the beautiful people reading this blog of mine, setting up docker for aws in an ec2 instance sounds tough, but is not. I will figure this out with these nice and easy steps. I will walkthrough you people to the installation of both docker and docker compose. We will be showing you what is aws docker and docker containers on aws.
Is EC2 and Docker are same ?
Some of you might have the question or confusion regarding is AWS EC2 and AWS Docker are same ! So answer is simple No. EC2 is a virtual machine whereas, Docker is all different technology.
What is an EC2 instance
An Amazon EC2 instance is a virtual server in Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) for running applications on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure. AWS is a comprehensive, evolving cloud computing platform; EC2 is a service that enables business subscribers to run application programs in the computing environment. It can serve as a practically unlimited set of virtual machines (VMs).
What is AWS Docker
Docker with aws is a set of platform as a service products that use OS-level virtualization to deliver software in packages called containers. The service has both free and premium tiers. The software that hosts the containers is called Docker Engine. It was first started in 2013 and is developed by Docker, Inc.
A Dockerfile is a text document that contains all the commands a user could call on the command line to assemble an image. Using docker build users can create an automated build that executes several command-line instructions in succession.
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Prerequisites:
- AWS account
2. Very basic knowledge of Docker and AWS
Steps to create AWS EC2 Instance and docker
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First let’s create an ec2 instance
Sign in to your AWS account, hop into the ec2 dashboard and launch an ec2 instance. you can search EC2 in search bar on AWS portal to easily get into to EC2 dashboard.
Click on instances, this will show you the list of instance if you have any
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Click on launch instances to create a aws ec2 instance for aws docker.
I named my ec2-instance as docker-ec2, you can name it any you want
t2-micro and proceed without keypair
I am assuming you know how to SSH into an EC2 instance with a keypair, in case if you don’t know just let me know in the comment section ,there will be a blog soon on it.
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or you can login with the key pair
Let’s chop in some commands for setting up docker in this ec2-instance
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Commands for installation of docker
sudo yum update
sudo yum search docker
sudo yum info docker
sudo yum install docker Above commands search for aws docker package and then install it on your aws instance .
Now, docker is installed successfully, now we just need to enable this docker service in order to make our docker commands to work
sudo systemctl enable docker.service
sudo systemctl start docker.serviceIn order to give sudo/ admin rights to the docker or in order to make docker commands to work without writing sudo ahead of them we need to add docker service to the admin group we can do this by using these commands. These commands will start the aws docker services on your EC2 instance
sudo groupadd docker
sudo usermod -aG docker $USERYou can make sure that your docker installation is successful by using command. Run the above commands to add your user to aws docker group so that user can use dockers.
docker --versionThis will give you the version of the docker installed in the console. Here’s the end if you just want to work with AWS docker in AWS EC2, instance or you can follow along if you want to know about how docker-compose installation will be done in AWS EC2 instance.
Just in case command if you get permission denied error while running docker commands
sudo chmod 666 /var/run/docker.sock Commands for installation of docker compose in case you want your yaml files/ docker-compose.yaml files to work in ec2 or commands like docker-compose up to work.
wget https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/latest/download/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m)
sudo mv docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m) /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
sudo chmod -v +x /usr/local/bin/docker-composeJust in case command if you get permission denied error while doing docker-compose up
sudo chmod 666 /var/run/docker.sock Now, you can check if docker-compose is successfully installed by using the command
docker-compose --versionThis will give you the version of docker-compose installed in the console as an output.
That’s it.
Conclusion:
This is how we can install AWS docker on our AWS EC2 instance and now you can easily run your docker image and “docker-compose.yml” files in the instance. In case you want to know more about docker and aws or how to SSH into your EC2 instance with a keypair just let me know in the comment section and there will a blog on it soon 😉.