Update: There is a new official OS for Raspberry Pi boards: Raspberry Pi OS, which is available in both 32-bit and 64-bit variants.
Check out how to install Docker and Docker Compose on Raspberry Pi OS in the updated article.
- Installing Docker. Installing Docker CE on Raspbian (Stretch or Buster) for Raspberry Pi is straightforward, and it’s fully supported by Docker. Docker CE is not supported on Raspbian Jessie anymore, so I’d recommend upgrading to a more recent release. We’re going to install Docker from the official Docker repositories. While there are.
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If you have Raspbian, the only way to set up Docker is by using automated convenience scripts. Method 1: Install Docker Using the Repository on Debian 10 The best option for most Debian 10 users will be to install Docker from its official repositories. In our smart home use case, we use the Raspberry Pi as infrastructure of Docker with Raspbian Buster Light as host operating system. Between the operating system and the containers where the applications are running is Docker responsible for the creation, deletion and management of images and containers. Latest Docker Engine 19.03.0 Community Edition You can use the latest features of the freshly-baked Docker Engine 19.03.0 that is still warm. It includes the Swarm Mode, which allows high availability of services in a multi-node cluster within just a few simple commands. Up to date with Raspbian Lite Buster.
This post is the definitive guide on using Docker on a Raspberry Pi, something I wish I had one week ago. I have a couple of Raspberry Pi’s to provide services for my home and using Docker seemed the simplest way to deploy them. However, the number of guides for doing that on the internet is relatively low.
Turns out there’s plenty of good news. Docker does run on Raspberry Pi 2, 3 and 4, and you don’t need any other OS beside Raspbian, the most popular and widely supported distribution. Even better: you can also install Docker Compose.
Please note, however, that users are reporting issues with trying to install Docker on Raspberry Pi 1 and Zero, because of the different CPU architecture.
Installing Docker
Installing Docker CE on Raspbian (Stretch or Buster) for Raspberry Pi is straightforward, and it’s fully supported by Docker. Docker CE is not supported on Raspbian Jessie anymore, so I’d recommend upgrading to a more recent release.
We’re going to install Docker from the official Docker repositories. While there are Docker packages on the Raspbian repos too, those are not kept up to date, which is something of an issue with a fast-evolving software like Docker.
To install Docker CE on Raspbian Stretch and Buster:
That’s it! The next step is about starting Docker and enabling it at boot:
Now that we have Docker running, we can test it by running the “hello world” image:
If everything is working fine, the command above will output something similar to:
About ARM images
This should hardly come as a surprise, but there’s a caveat with running Docker on a Raspberry Pi. Since those small devices do not run on x86_64, but rather have ARM-based CPUs, you won’t be able to use all the packages on the Docker Hub.
Instead, you need to look for images distributed by the arm32v7 organization (called armhf before), or tagged with those labels. Good news is that the arm32v7 organization is officially supported by Docker, so you get high-quality images.
While the CPUs inside Raspberry Pi 3’s and 4’s are using the ARMv8 (or ARM64) architecture, Raspbian is compiled as a 32-bit OS, so using Raspbian you’re not able to run 64-bit applications or containers.
Many common applications are already pre-built for ARM, including a growing number of official images, and you can also find a list of community-contributed arm32v7 images on Docker Hub. However, this is still a fraction of the number of images available for the x86_64 architecture.
Installing Docker Compose
In this last step we’re installing Docker Compose.
The official installation method for Linux, as in the Docker documentation, points users to the GitHub downloads page, which however does not offer pre-built binaries for the ARM architecture.
Luckily, we can still easily install Docker Compose from pip:
With this, you now have a complete Raspberry Pi mini-server running Docker and ready to accept your containers.
Thu, Jul 25, 2019We’re proud to announce our 1.11.0 release of HypriotOS - the fastest way to get Docker up and running on any Raspberry Pi.
Features of HypriotOS
Latest Docker Engine 19.03.0 Community Edition
You can use the latest features of the freshly-baked Docker Engine 19.03.0 that is still warm. It includes the Swarm Mode, which allows high availability of services in a multi-node cluster within just a few simple commands.
Up to date with Raspbian Lite Buster
You can run HypriotOS with an up-to-date OS and Linux kernel which is in sync with the current Raspbian Lite Buster running a Linux kernel 4.19.58.
Support for the complete Raspberry Pi family
You can run HypriotOS on every model of the Raspberry Pi family - we’re supporting Pi 1, 2, 3, the 3 B+, Zero and even the Compute Module and the new Raspberry Pi 4 B.
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Easy flashing and configuration
We improved our flash tool, which puts HypriotOS onto a SD card that is ready to boot from with a single command. With additional command line options you can customize HypriotOS during the flash operation to have the best out-of-the-box first-boot experience.HypriotOS includes cloud-init, which makes the first boot of your Raspberry Pi customizable and you even are able connecting it to your Wi-Fi network during boot.After booting, you can find the Raspberry Pi at your network with a simple ping black-pearl.local – no more searching for IP addresses required thanks to the integrated Avahi service discovery.
Enhanced security out of the box
We think that security should be shipped out-of-the-box. We make HypriotOS more secure without you even noticing it. For instance, there is no built-in “root” user. Also, the default user “pirate” (password “hypriot”) is can be customized or removed before the first boot. Just look at the file /boot/user-data. You can add your public SSH key, disable password logins and specify a different user account before you even boot your Raspberry Pi. WiFi can be customized and enabled to have Docker up and running through the air without attaching a keyboard and monitor.
Smaller than Raspbian Lite
Even though HypriotOS 1.11.0 is fully packed with the complete and latest Docker tool set, it now comes at a size smaller than the tiniest version of Raspbian (“Raspbian Lite”).
Please see all details in the release notes.
Quick start
Download our flash tool
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Now run this command to flash HypriotOS 1.11.0
Afterwards, put the SD card into the Raspberry Pi and power it. That’s all to get HypriotOS up and running!
Next steps
If you want to connect to the Raspberry Pi, run
with password “hypriot”.
Flash with Wi-Fi settings for Pi Zero / Pi 3 / Pi 4
If you want the Raspberry Pi Zero (or Pi 3 or Pi 4) to connect directly to your Wi-Fi after boot, change the hostname of the Raspberry Pi and more, edit /boot/user-data of the SD card and have a look at our FAQ. Alternatively, checkout the parameters of the Hypriot flash tool that also allows you to define your own cloud-init user-data template file which will be copied onto the SD image for you:
Feedback, please
As always, use the comments below to give us feedback and share it on Twitter or Facebook.
Please send us your feedback on our Gitter channel or tweet your thoughts and ideas on this project at @HypriotTweets.
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