DevOps: Puppet, Docker, and Kubernetes

Building a Docker binary from the source

Sometimes it becomes necessary to build a Docker binary from the source for testing a patch. It is very easy to build the Docker binary from the source.

Getting ready

1. Download the Docker source code using git:

   $ git clone https://github.com/docker/docker.git
   

2. Install make on Fedora:

   $ yum install -y make
   

3. Make sure Docker is running on the host on which you are building the code and you can access it through the Docker client, as the build we are discussing here happens inside a container.

How to do it…

1. Go inside the cloned directory:

   $ cd docker
   

2. Run the make command:

   $ sudo make
   

How it works…

This will create a container and compile the code inside that from the master branch. Once finished, it will spit out the ...