Running dockers on Android

Question

With Android 4.4 KitKat, Google upgrades the Linux kernel to version 3.8, which is the required kernel version for Docker.

I don't know the AUFS part, but will there be a way to launch docker containers on android with this update?

Answer 1

According to the documentation , the Android kernel lacks a lot of the kernel features needed for LXC .

Perhaps in the future with Docker 1.x it is possible to create a plugin with Android functions instead of LXC. But for now, you will need to create a custom Android kernel, and then create an LXC for it.

There are some people who are really working on this, and Stefan Graber has a good summary of the difficulties on his blog .

Answer 2

It depends on whether this kernel is compiled with the necessary functions to run containers. If so, then Docker can be used on Android (especially Docker 0.7, which is now in candidate status in a release and no longer requires AUFS).