Install Docker and Dockstation on Fedora

We will install Docker, Docker Compose and Dockstation on Fedora 34 using official guidelines and set up a pyspark-notebook image as an example.

So, let’s get started right away.

First switch to the root user:

su root

Alternatively, you can add sudo before each following command.

Install Docker Engine on Fedora

Install Docker Engine on Fedora

Uninstall old versions

dnf remove docker \
           docker-client \
           docker-client-latest \
           docker-common \
           docker-latest \
           docker-latest-logrotate \
           docker-logrotate \
           docker-selinux \
           docker-engine-selinux \
           docker-engine

Set up the repository

dnf -y install dnf-plugins-core
dnf config-manager \
    --add-repo \
    https://download.docker.com/linux/fedora/docker-ce.repo

Install Docker Engine

dnf install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io

Start Docker

systemctl start docker

Verify that Docker Engine is installed correctly

docker run hello-world

If everything is okay you will get similar output

Also, you can check the current docker version

docker version

Install Docker Compose

Install Docker Compose

Download the current stable release of Docker Compose (1.29.2)

curl -L "https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.29.2/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m)" -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

Apply executable permissions to the binary

chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

Test the installation

docker-compose --version

Manage Docker as a non-root user

usermod -aG docker $USER

Log out and log back in so that your group membership is re-evaluated.

Configure Docker to start on boot

systemctl enable docker.service
systemctl enable containerd.service

Install Dockstation

DockStation

Download AppImage.

Mark the file as executable from the permissions tab in the file properties and launch by double-clicking the file.

After register or login, you will get this screen

As an example let’s install pyspark-notebook provided by jupyter .

Click the “Add new project “ button, set project title, create and select project path, optionally select the latest Compose file version

Click the “CREATE” button. You will be taken to the screen where you can find the images you need. On the “SCHEME” tab at the bottom in the “Search images” field type in “pyspark-notebook”

Find an image from ‘jupiter’ and drag it to the right

Click the “OK” button. Then you can click the “Start” button and you are ready for work.

By default, Jupiter notebook works on port 8888. In my case port was already in use by another Jupiter notebook launched with the Anaconda.

Check if the port is in use (if the port is not in use then the command will return nothing)

ss -tulpn | grep ':8888'

So we can change the port in Dockstation. Go to tab “General” -> “Settings” -> “Ports” and set local port to 9999, for example.

Click the “Start” button, go to the “Logs” tab, copy the URL at the bottom and paste it into the browser. If you change the port earlier — correct it in the URL

In case you need to use the local files (run your local .ipynb files for example), you may want to connect them as volumes.

This can be done in tab “General” -> “Settings” -> “Volumes”

Or add volumes directly to docker-compose.yml file in tab “Editor”

Then click the “Restart” button and you are good to go.

That it.