Installer docker-engine avec Homebrew, apk, chocolatey

Liens du projet

• Page d'accueil
• Dépôt
• Docs amont
• Page du gestionnaire de paquets

Commandes et alias

• docker-proxy
• dockerd
• dockerd-rootless-setuptool.sh
• dockerd-rootless.sh

Historique du projet

Docker Engine began as the open-source Docker daemon and API codebase and is now built from the Moby Project. The Moby README describes Moby as an open-source project created by Docker to accelerate containerization and as a modular toolkit for assembling container-based systems, with Docker committed to using Moby as upstream for Docker products.

The Engine documentation describes Docker Engine as a client-server application with dockerd, APIs, and the Docker CLI. Over time, the daemon has been refactored toward a modular container stack that relies on related projects such as containerd, runc, and BuildKit. The Moby roadmap explicitly calls out reducing duplicated runtime code by relying more on containerd and replacing the legacy builder with BuildKit.

The release history spans from v0.1.0 in March 2013 to stable Docker Engine release lines in the 2020s. Docker 1.0 arrived in June 2014, the 1.10 line in 2016 was a major early Engine generation, and modern release notes show Engine 29.x continuing security, containerd, BuildKit, runc, rootless, storage, networking, and API work.

Historique d'adoption

Docker Engine's adoption changed package-manager culture by making dockerd a normal server-side dependency for development machines, CI builders, and Linux hosts. The package is both an end-user tool and infrastructure substrate: Docker Desktop bundles it for local development, Linux distributions package it for servers, and many higher-level tools assume a Docker-compatible daemon or API.

Its adoption also created a dependency constellation that package maintainers track closely: Docker CLI, containerd, runc, BuildKit, RootlessKit, Compose, credential helpers, storage drivers, network/firewall integrations, and daemon configuration files all have to line up for a working install.

Modes d'utilisation

Users usually interact with Docker Engine through the docker CLI, while programs call the Engine API. The daemon manages images, containers, networks, and volumes, stores daemon configuration in daemon.json on supported platforms, and persists daemon data under platform-specific data directories such as /var/lib/docker on Linux.

Common package-level usage includes installing dockerd as a service, configuring daemon.json for hosts, storage, logging, proxies, or rootless mode, and keeping Engine aligned with containerd, runc, BuildKit, and Docker CLI versions.

Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

Docker Engine is one of the packages that reshaped modern packaging: it made container images a default build and delivery unit, made daemon/API version compatibility part of everyday developer tooling, and turned low-level Linux namespaces, cgroups, layered filesystems, registries, and OCI runtimes into routine package-manager concerns.

For package nerds, docker-engine is also a stress test for packaging policy. It ships a privileged daemon, CLI integration, rootless helpers, networking and firewall behavior, storage drivers, bundled static components, security updates, and fast-moving upstream release notes. Few packages expose as many boundaries between OS packaging, language tooling, cloud CI, and application deployment.

Chronologie

• 2013: v0.1.0 is tagged in the Docker/Moby history.
• 2014: Docker 1.0.0 is tagged.
• 2016: Docker 1.10.0 is tagged in the early Engine release series.
• 2017: Docker 1.13.0 is tagged; the deprecated-features documentation records several 1.13-era deprecations and removals.
• 2025: the Moby README notes Docker v29 deprecates the old github.com/docker/docker Go module path in favor of supported Moby modules.
• 2026: Docker Engine 29.x release notes document ongoing security, containerd, BuildKit, runc, networking, rootless, and packaging updates.

Related projects

• Related projects include Moby, Docker CLI, Docker Compose, Docker Desktop, containerd, runc, BuildKit, RootlessKit, Docker Hub and registries, Docker credential helpers, and Mirantis Container Runtime.

Sources

• https://docs.docker.com/engine/
• https://docs.docker.com/engine/daemon/
• https://docs.docker.com/get-started/docker-overview/
• https://github.com/moby/moby#readme
• https://github.com/moby/moby/blob/master/ROADMAP.md
• https://docs.docker.com/engine/release-notes/29/
• https://github.com/moby/moby/releases
• https://github.com/moby/moby/tags