[Container-tools] Version incompatibility of Docker client and server - projectatomic/vagrant-adbinfo issue #85

[Shubham Minglani]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Praveen Kumar" <kumarpraveen.nitdgp at gmail.com>
> To: "Shubham Minglani" <sminglan at redhat.com>
> Cc: "Bama Charan Kundu" <bkundu at redhat.com>, container-tools at redhat.com
> Sent: Friday, February 5, 2016 6:10:15 PM
> Subject: Re: [Container-tools] Version incompatibility of Docker client and server - projectatomic/vagrant-adbinfo
> issue #85
> 
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 6:01 PM, Shubham Minglani <sminglan at redhat.com> wrote:
> >> Check https://github.com/docker/docker/releases , so docker does
> >> provide release client for different operating system. You can
> >> directly download binary and try that out with ADB (which contains
> >> docker 1.8.2). Now adbinfo can check available version and if mismatch
> >> then download required version. I tested Linux client v1.8.2 and it
> >> worked as expected.
> >>
> >> # wget https://get.docker.com/builds/Linux/x86_64/docker-1.8.2 -o
> >> /opt/docker-1.8.2
> >> # chmod +x /opt/docker-1.8.2
> >> # eval "$(vagrant adbinfo)"
> >> # /opt/docker-1.8.2 images
> >
> > Hi Praveen,
> >
> > Where do you suggest we install this docker client?
> 
> This is binary file so you don't have to install it on base machine.
> 

Oh, I was somehow under the impression that we might have to tinker with the host's docker installation. This clears it, thanks :)

- Shubham