Howdy!

Has anyone been able to get Docker to run on Slackware -current?

Yep, it's on SBo and runs no problem. You might also be interested in vbatts' page on it, he provides some minimal images for Slackware.

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Thanks,

I actually tried the SBo package, it failed to build....so I thought I would ask.

you need to install all dependencies first and don't forget to use "su -" instead of just plain "su"
here are the build order:

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Good stuff, I will give that a go.

Thanks.

and don't forget to logout from your root session and login again after having installed google-go-lang: it's required to build some of the dependencies as this way some files in /etc/profile.d will be sourced to use google's go compiler instead of gcc's one, it's explained in google-go-lang's README.
I too can confirm that it builds and runs fine on current as I tested just yesterday.

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Docker runs on both -current and 14.2 just fine; you don't even have to do a full build from source, just the static binaries from https://download.docker.com/linux/static/stable/x86_64/ will do.

You can also apply my https://github.com/zakame/docker-ce-SlackBuild to install slackware packages based from the static binary package.

Good luck!

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Did any of you also get docker-compose & docker-machine installed as well?

I have docker-compose 1.25.1 running on -current. It has a rather long list of dependencies (and dependencies of dependencies) so it's a bit of a chore, but it works fine once it's installed. At one point I was going to create a script to automate the installation of it but I got distracted.

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if you use sbopkg, you can generate queue file for that

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For docker-compose you don't even have to install it, so long as you already have Docker running: just grab the run.sh script and go:

This will pull d-c as a Docker image that can run as a container app a la Flatpak/AppImage; run it at least once, even with just ./docker-compose help.

docker-machine is a bit more trouble, though the release binaries themselves are relatively straightforward to install; its the machine-drivers that you'll need to further set up, which will depend on whether you want/need (e.g. whether you'd be using docker-machine-kvm for driving libvirt machines, or use an external cloud driver entirely.)

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I'm actually taking a Udemy course on Docker & Kubernetes - so I'm hacking my way through getting the environment setup....I'm just not that savvy when it comes to figuring this stuff out on Slackware. On Centos it was easy peasy, but I want to stay with Slackware, so.....I'm doing it the hard way I guess : )

My advice: follow the course on a CentOS 7 host machine (5 minutes to install it, plus one 1 minute to install Docker) and once you're proficient with Docker, you can always come back and install/use it on a Slackware host along with Slackware container images.

BTW, is that Jason Cannon's course you're following ?

I actually did the course using Centos 7, and it's Bret Fishers course. I thought it would be fun to get it running on Slackware, because that's my flavor of Linux. I just bought Bret's course on Kubernetes this morning : )

It is fun, and easy enough, to run Docker + Kubernetes on Slackware. Minikube runs well enough once you've gotten docker-machine-driver-kvm2 set up to talk to libvirt (and you can reuse that driver for Swarm machines as well,) though if you're already have dockerd running, you can just run KinD or k3d to run k8s nodes in Docker without virtualization.

OTOH there really isn't anything Slackware specific for building Docker + Kubernetes tooling (as opposed to running, which might need some things like a new kernel and/or cgroups shims, depending on workload,) as many of these modern tools use Golang/Rust and often already release static binaries precisely to avoid portability concerns in the varying Linux distros.

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