[kwlug-disc] Docker repositories

[Mikalai Birukou]

https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2018/07/04/docker-io-debian-package-back-to-life/

from comments in

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45023363/what-is-docker-io-in-relation-to-docker-ce-and-docker-ee


On 2019-11-19 4:49 p.m., Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc wrote:
> Today is a very sad day; after a series of increasingly-unwise life
> decisions it looks like I finally have to start using (and therefore
> understanding) Docker.
>
> My first question: Do I want to use the official Ubuntu packages
> (docker.io) or the ones in the Docker repositories (docker-ce)?
>
> My inclination is to stick with the Ubuntu repositories even though
> the version of Docker will be older. My understanding is that
> docker-ce bundles a lot of its own dependencies in the image.
>
> Are there things in bleeding-edge Docker that I care about? Am I going
> to get in trouble for trying to use the Ubuntu packaged Docker? At
> this point I am just trying to run a single Docker image (that
> somebody else made) on a physical machine running Ubuntu 18.04 .
>
> - Paul
>
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Mikalai Birukou
CEO | 3NSoft Inc.