Install Docker offline

This page gives the procedure to install Docker in offline mode.

Prerequisites

1. A machine with access to download.docker.com and the official operating system repositories
2. A way to upload the packets to the offline machine

On Debian-based distributions

1. Download packages docker-ce, docker-ce-cli and containerd.io from the URL that matches your distribution:

   • Debian 10
   • Debian 11
   • Ubuntu 18.04
   • Ubuntu 20.04
   • Ubuntu 22.04
2. Copy the files to the offline machine

3. On the offline machine, install the imported packages:

   sudo dpkg -i *.deb
   

The Docker daemon starts automatically and is ready to use.

On Red Hat based distributions

The machine with internet access needs a fully up to date CentOS or RHEL environment in Minimal version to be able to manage the resolution of Docker dependencies.

1. On the machine with internet access, install yum-utils:

   sudo yum install -y yum-utils
   sudo yum-config-manager --add-repo https://download.docker.com/linux/centos/docker-ce.repo
   

2. Download Docker CE packages and its dependencies:

   sudo yum install --downloadonly --downloaddir rpms/ docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io
   

3. Import the .rpm packages downloaded to folder rpms/ to the offline machine

4. On the offline machine, install all the packages imported and start Docker:

   sudo dnf install rpms/*.rpm --disablerepo '*'
   sudo systemctl enable --now docker