This guide uses Debian as base image to run docker on. Let me just quickly point out that we are working on getting Docker available as a proper Debian package (all dependencies are in place, a bit of work has to be done on the Docker package still).
Once that work is done, you’ll be able to apt-get install docker and have it just work. No more scary downloading of binaries from some server that may or may not be run by docker.io ;).
I am fairly amazed by the low quality of packaging in Linux distributions these days. I’ve looked at what Arch Linux and Gentoo do, and they just use docker.io’s blob and redistribute that. In Debian we are going to build the package from source.
Once that work is done, you’ll be able to apt-get install docker and have it just work. No more scary downloading of binaries from some server that may or may not be run by docker.io ;).
I am fairly amazed by the low quality of packaging in Linux distributions these days. I’ve looked at what Arch Linux and Gentoo do, and they just use docker.io’s blob and redistribute that. In Debian we are going to build the package from source.