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Supported platforms
Docker Engine is available on a variety of Linux platforms,macOS and Windows 10through Docker Desktop, and as a static binary installation. Findyour preferred operating system below.
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Install Docker Engine. Estimated reading time: 5 minutes. Supported platforms. Docker Engine is available on a variety of Linux platforms, macOS and Windows 10 through Docker Desktop, and as a static binary installation. Find your preferred operating system below. Aug 05, 2020 This tutorial provides a starting point on how to install Docker, create and run Docker containers on CentOS/RHEL 8/7, but barely scratches the surface of Docker. Step 1: Install and Configure Docker. Earlier versions of Docker were called docker or docker-engine, if you have these installed, you must uninstall them before installing a newer. Docker images for Kibana are available from the Elastic Docker registry. The base image is centos:7. A list of all published Docker images and tags is available at www.docker.elastic.co. The source code is in GitHub. These images contain both free and subscription features. Start a 30-day trial to.
Server
Docker provides .deb
and .rpm
packages from the following Linux distributionsand architectures:
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Note
While the instructions below may work, Docker does not test or verifyinstallation on derivatives.
- Users of Debian derivatives such as “BunsenLabs Linux”, “Kali Linux” or “LMDE” (Debian-based Mint) should follow the installation instructions forDebian, substituting the version of their distro for thecorresponding Debian release. Refer to the documentation of your distro to findwhich Debian release corresponds with your derivative version.
- Likewise, users of Ubuntu derivatives such as “Kubuntu”, “Lubuntu” or “Xubuntu”should follow the installation instructions for Ubuntu,substituting the version of their distro for the corresponding Ubuntu release.Refer to the documentation of your distro to find which Ubuntu releasecorresponds with your derivative version.
- Some Linux distributions are providing a package of Docker Engine through theirpackage repositories. These packages are built and maintained by the Linuxdistribution’s package maintainers and may have differences in configurationor built from modified source code. Docker is not involved in releasing thesepackages and bugs or issues involving these packages should be reported inyour Linux distribution’s issue tracker.
Docker provides binaries for manual installation of Docker Engine.These binaries are statically linked and can be used on any Linux distribution.
Release channels
Docker Engine has three types of update channels, stable, test,and nightly:
- The Stable channel gives you latest releases for general availability.
- The Test channel gives pre-releases that are ready for testing beforegeneral availability (GA).
- The Nightly channel gives you latest builds of work in progress for thenext major release.
Stable
Year-month releases are made from a release branch diverged from the masterbranch. The branch is created with format <year>.<month>
, for example19.03
. The year-month name indicates the earliest possible calendarmonth to expect the release to be generally available. All further patchreleases are performed from that branch. For example, once v19.03.0
isreleased, all subsequent patch releases are built from the 19.03
branch.
Test
In preparation for a new year-month release, a branch is created fromthe master branch with format YY.mm
when the milestones desired byDocker for the release have achieved feature-complete. Pre-releasessuch as betas and release candidates are conducted from their respective releasebranches. Patch releases and the corresponding pre-releases are performedfrom within the corresponding release branch.
Nightly
Nightly builds give you the latest builds of work in progress for the next majorrelease. They are created once per day from the master branch with the versionformat:
where the time is the commit time in UTC and the final suffix is the prefixof the commit hash, for example 0.0.0-20180720214833-f61e0f7
.
These builds allow for testing from the latest code on the master branch. Noqualifications or guarantees are made for the nightly builds.
Support
Docker Engine releases of a year-month branch are supported with patches asneeded for one month after the next year-month general availability release.
This means bug reports and backports to release branches are assesseduntil the end-of-life date.
After the year-month branch has reached end-of-life, the branch may bedeleted from the repository.
Backporting
Backports to the Docker products are prioritized by the Docker company. ADocker employee or repository maintainer will endeavour to ensure sensiblebugfixes make it into active releases.
If there are important fixes that ought to be considered for backport toactive release branches, be sure to highlight this in the PR descriptionor by adding a comment to the PR.
Upgrade path
Patch releases are always backward compatible with its year-month version.
Licensing
Docker is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. SeeLICENSE for the fulllicense text.
Reporting security issues
The Docker maintainers take security seriously. If you discover a securityissue, please bring it to their attention right away!
Please DO NOT file a public issue; instead send your report privatelyto security@docker.com.
Security reports are greatly appreciated, and Docker will publicly thank youfor it.
Get started
After setting up Docker, you can learn the basics withGetting started with Docker.
docker, installation, install, Docker Engine, Docker Engine, docker editions, stable, edgeDocker images for Kibana are available from the Elastic Docker registry. Thebase image is centos:7.
A list of all published Docker images and tags is available atwww.docker.elastic.co. The source code is inGitHub.
These images contain both free and subscription features.Start a 30-day trial to try out all of the features.
Pull the imageedit
Obtaining Kibana for Docker is as simple as issuing a docker pull
commandagainst the Elastic Docker registry.
Run Kibana on Docker for developmentedit
Docker Install Windows
Kibana can be quickly started and connected to a local Elasticsearch container for developmentor testing use with the following command:
Configure Kibana on Dockeredit
The Docker images provide several methods for configuring Kibana. Theconventional approach is to provide a kibana.yml
file as described inConfiguring Kibana, but it’s also possible to useenvironment variables to define settings.
Bind-mounted configurationedit
One way to configure Kibana on Docker is to provide kibana.yml
via bind-mounting.With docker-compose
, the bind-mount can be specified like this:
Environment variable configurationedit
Under Docker, Kibana can be configured via environment variables. Whenthe container starts, a helper process checks the environment for variables thatcan be mapped to Kibana command-line arguments.
For compatibility with container orchestration systems, theseenvironment variables are written in all capitals, with underscores asword separators. The helper translates these names to validKibana setting names.
All information that you include in environment variables is visible through the ps
command, including sensitive information.
Some example translations are shown here:
Table 1. Example Docker Environment Variables
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In general, any setting listed in Configure Kibana can beconfigured with this technique.
These variables can be set with docker-compose
like this:
Since environment variables are translated to CLI arguments, they takeprecedence over settings configured in kibana.yml
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Docker defaultsedit
The following settings have different default values when using the Dockerimages:
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These settings are defined in the default kibana.yml
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or viaenvironment variables.
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If replacing kibana.yml
with a custom version, be sure to copy thedefaults to the custom file if you want to retain them. If not, they willbe 'masked' by the new file.