Amazon changed the install in Linux 2. One no-longer using 'yum' See: https://aws.amazon.com/amazon-linux-2/release-notes/ ## Docker CE Install ```sh sudo amazon-linux-extras install docker sudo service docker start sudo usermod -a -G docker ec2-user ``` Make docker auto-start `sudo chkconfig docker on` Because you always need it.... `sudo yum install -y git` Reboot to verify it all loads fine on its own. `sudo reboot` ## docker-compose install Copy the appropriate `docker-compose` binary from GitHub: `sudo curl -L https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.22.0/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m) -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose` Fix permissions after download: `sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose` Verify success: `docker-compose version`