
Let’s dig into how to install the right version, which works on RHEL 8. To be fair, the upstream Docker CE docs also demonstrate how to install the version made for CentOS 7, so it’s kind of understandable that they are wrong on. This article does not verify that the container-tools module is uninstalled Start the installation by updating your CentOS 8 system to the latest release: sudo yum -y update Wait for the system packages to be upgraded then reboot your system if kernel related updates were made.It demonstrates how to install the version for CentOS 7, not CentOS 8 (which does work). This article shows the user how to install the wrong version of Docker-CE.

If you’d read closely, you might have read a false statement which says, “What version to install? Well, Red Hat seems to have somehow blocked the installation of containerd.io > 1.2.0-3.el7, which is a dependency of docker-ce.” This statement is completely wrong. If you’ve searched google to figure out how to install Docker-CE on RHEL 8, you may have been led to this very popular article: : How to Install Docker on RHEL 8.
