UPDATE: for Docker 0.6.5, the ubuntu debian package also installs on Debian. You still need to enable IPv4 forwarding as below – then re-start the docker daemon

I've been doing some work on Docker – learning golang, Docker internals, and just some of the command line options that I didn't know I needed to know about.

Because I was in a hurry, I threw an old unused disk into one of my old laptops and installed ubuntu. That was enough for me to learn that I wanted to know alot more about Docker.

So, I'm back to using the loaner T530 with my 128GB SSD in it – its been running Debian since the day I got the SSD, over 2 years ago.

it turns out that on Debian testing (with the 3.10-3-amd64 kernel), its incredibly easy to run docker:

$1

done.

from there, you can run the docker cli like normal (except that its not in your path yet).

I'm going to pull over the apt pinning installation documentation I wrote for publican the other week and re-write it (and test) for installing docker on Debian Stable, and we'll all be much happier.