Docker-on-AWS-EC2-Instance

Docker Installation on AWS EC2 Instance. This is to show how to install Docker on an AWS EC2 instance. We'll walk you through setting up Docker on your Amazon EC2 server.

Launch Amazon EC2

Connect to instance

To Update the instance

  sudo yum update -y

Install Docker

sudo yum install docker -y

Start Docker

sudo service docker start

Check the service

sudo service docker status

Check the Docker version

sudo docker version

Let's search and pull the nginx image

sudo docker search nginx
sudo docker pull nginx

Check for the images on the docker

sudo docker images

Let's create a container with the nginx image

sudo docker run -d -p 80:80 nginx
sudo docker ps

Use the EC2 instance public IP to check for the Nginx welcome page

to stop a container

sudo docker stop <id>

to remove the image

sudo docker rmi <image_name/image_id>