CHAPTER 2

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Installing Linux

Installing Linux is a task most developers and all Linux administrators are familiar with. Several Linux distributions are available including Red Hat Linux, Ubuntu, openSuse and Oracle Linux. Some of the options for installing Linux include using the Amazon Linux AMIs, ISO images and virtual machine images. Linux could also be installed using a Docker image. Several Docker images for Linux distributions are available from the Docker public repository (https://hub.docker.com/). In this chapter we will install Oracle Linux using a Docker image.

  • Setting the Environment
  • Downloading the Docker Image
  • Listing Docker Images ...

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