diff --git a/content/rancher/v2.x/en/installation/requirements/_index.md b/content/rancher/v2.x/en/installation/requirements/_index.md index 990f002dae2..2d4c1010be3 100644 --- a/content/rancher/v2.x/en/installation/requirements/_index.md +++ b/content/rancher/v2.x/en/installation/requirements/_index.md @@ -35,7 +35,9 @@ All supported operating systems are 64-bit x86. If you plan to run Rancher on ARM64, see [Running on ARM64 (Experimental).]({{}}/rancher/v2.x/en/installation/options/arm64-platform/) -For information on how to install Docker, refer to the offical [Docker documentation.](https://docs.docker.com/) +### Installing Docker + +Docker can be installed by following the steps in the offical [Docker documentation.](https://docs.docker.com/) Rancher also provides [scripts]({{}}/rancher/v2.x/en/installation/requirements/installing-docker) to install Docker with one command. # Hardware Requirements diff --git a/content/rancher/v2.x/en/installation/requirements/installing-docker/_index.md b/content/rancher/v2.x/en/installation/requirements/installing-docker/_index.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..ac20da0afe8 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/rancher/v2.x/en/installation/requirements/installing-docker/_index.md @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +--- +title: Installing Docker +weight: 1 +--- + +Docker is required to be installed on any node that runs the Rancher server. + +There are a couple of options for installing Docker. One option is to refer to the [official Docker documentation](https://docs.docker.com/install/) about how to install Docker on Linux. The steps will vary based on the Linux distribution. + +Another option is to use one of Rancher's Docker installation scripts, which are available for most recent versions of Docker. + +For example, this command could be used to install Docker 18.09 on Ubuntu: + +``` +curl https://releases.rancher.com/install-docker/18.09.sh | sh +``` + +To find out whether a script is available for installing a certain Docker version, refer to this [GitHub repository,](https://github.com/rancher/install-docker) which contains all of Rancher's Docker installation scripts. \ No newline at end of file