Upgrading Docker from version 25 to version 27 in Amazon Linux 2023.6.20241212

I have this Jenkins server that I haven’t touched for a year, and when I started it, I was greeted with two upgrades. One is from Jenkins, and the other one is from AWS. I did an upgrade of AWS to 2023.6.20241212. Everything went fine until suddenly I checked my Docker, and I have an outdated version 25 which I believe is correct based on this information from AWS https://docs.aws.amazon.com/linux/al2023/release-notes/all-packages-AL2023.6.html

The latest version of Docker is now on version 27 based on the time of writing. I checked the details of the installed AWS Linux and it is based on Fedora https://aws.amazon.com/linux/amazon-linux-2023/faqs/

Let’s verify.

I did a google and found this command:

Bash

sudo dnf install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-buildx-plugin docker-compose-plugin

I got an error:

Console Output

Docker CE Stable - x86_64                                         693  B/s | 417  B     00:00   
Errors during downloading metadata for repository 'docker-ce-stable':
 - Status code: 404 for https://download.docker.com/linux/fedora/2023.6.20241212/x86_64/stable/repodata/repomd.xml (IP: 0.0.0.0)
Error: Failed to download metadata for repo 'docker-ce-stable': Cannot download repomd.xml: Cannot download repodata/repomd.xml: All mirrors were tried
Ignoring repositories: docker-ce-stable
Last metadata expiration check: 1:07:15 ago on Tue Jan  7 14:23:13 2025.
No match for argument: docker-ce
No match for argument: docker-ce-cli
No match for argument: containerd.io
No match for argument: docker-buildx-plugin
No match for argument: docker-compose-plugin
Error: Unable to find a match: docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-buildx-plugin docker-compose-plugin

I followed this link just to see what it shows https://download.docker.com/linux/fedora/2023.6.20241212/x86_64/stable/repodata/repomd.xml

Looks like the package is unavailable.

So I decided to install it using Binaries or Manual Installation. You can check it here https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/binaries/

Or you can follow what i did (it’s just the same actually 😀):

Check the version you need at https://download.docker.com/linux/static/stable/

As of this writing the version is 27.4.1

Bash

// Download 
curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/static/stable/x86_64/docker-27.4.1.tgz -o docker.tgz

// Extract
tar xzvf docker.tgz

// Move the files
sudo mv docker/* /usr/bin/

// Starts the daemon, runs it in the background
sudo dockerd &

// Check docker version 
docker --version

// Check if it is correctly installed
Docker run hello-world