This guide looks at what it will take to build dockerd and docker-cli from source with Ubuntu. Ubuntu was chosen as the OS as it uses the same apt-get calls the standard Dockerfile method uses making the experience a bit more seamless. While the official method is building docker in a container, here are some reasons why you may want to build this way:
- Custom source modifications for testing
- System that does not yet have a docker(d) binary release
- You want to test things on a non-standard toolchain
- You just want to deep dive
As you can probably tell using this method means you're delving away from support. Please don't file issues/PRs unless you can reproduce in the official build environment. In fact unless you really have one of the strong needs above you're better off building off a container since this guide is mostly a lot of copy/paste from the Dockerfile used in the official build system.