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docker-io


Information about the package, docker-io, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The docker-io package is designed for, Automates deployment of containerized applications.


Package Name:

docker-io

Summary:

Automates deployment of containerized applications

Description:

Docker is an open-source engine that automates the deployment of any application as a lightweight, portable, self-sufficient container that will run virtually anywhere. Docker containers can encapsulate any payload, and will run consistently on and between virtually any server. The same container that a developer builds and tests on a laptop will run at scale, in production*, on VMs, bare-metal servers, OpenStack clusters, public instances, or combinations of the above.

Architecture:

x86_64

Version:

1.7.1

Release:

2.el6

Size:

4.6 M

Repository:

epel

From Repository:

Licence:

ASL 2.0



Handy Yum Commands for docker-io


Control the docker-io package with the following handy commands outlined below.


Command

Description of Command

yum install docker-io

This command will install docker-io on the server.

yum remove docker-io

This command will un-install docker-io on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove docker-io, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y remove docker-io

This command will un-install docker-io on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove docker-io when using the -y flag.

yum update docker-io

This command will update docker-io to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove docker-io, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y update docker-io

This command will update docker-io to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove docker-io when using the -y flag.

yum info docker-io

This command will show you core information about the docker-io package.

yum deplist docker-io

This command will show you the dependencies for docker-io. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.

yum check-update docker-io

This command will check if there is an update waiting on docker-io. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.