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Containers on Blue Waters: Instructor Notes

Docker on Linux

On Linux, you have to prefix all docker commands with sudo because Docker requires administrative privileges. If you would like to avoid having to type sudo with every Docker command, follow these steps (from here):

sudo groupadd docker         # Create 'docker' group
sudo gpasswd -a $USER docker # Add current user to the group
sudo service docker restart  # Restart Docker daemon
exit                         # Log out