getting it on with docker

So I use centos for most of experiments, lab work at home. I just have this love hate relationship with it i simply cant explain or resist. Needed get the docker, docker swarm, docker compose to work on cent os.
Optionally please set up vmware tools on your centOS 7. I recommend it.
So here is how I set it up.

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yum install epel-release # get the yum repository installed yum install docker sudo curl -L https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.21.2/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m) -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose # It installs the docker composer of a version which is needed for the docker to work with.

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1. install the epel repository
2. install docker which will also get you the docker swarm
3. installs the docker compose of a version which is needed for the docker version that you installed at line 2.
Get the visual studio code if you do not already have it

sudo rpm --import https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc
sudo sh -c 'echo -e "[code]\nname=Visual Studio Code\nbaseurl=https://packages.microsoft.com/yumrepos/vscode\nenabled=1\ngpgcheck=1\ngpgkey=https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc" > /etc/yum.repos.d/vscode.repo'

yum check-update
sudo yum install code

you will notice that you cannot just run docker-compose because you will get permission denied error. So let us do this final bit.

1 2	chown root /usr/local/bin/docker-compose chmod 777 /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

We are not done yet.

1 2	systemctl enable docker service docker start

line 1. enable the docker service to start at boot up.
line 2. start the docker service manually for now.

Get that damn VMware tools working on centos 7

So I have realized that even though virtualbox is more suited for devops activities like vagrant, docker, container, kubernetes etc., I still somehow like vmware workstation; may be because I just like VMware since I have doing VMware stuff from a very long time. I just liked the grouping of VMs, folder, tabs and more.
I keep hitting a small hurdle and that is getting the VMware tools installed on it. I am currently using centos for jenkins, docker, kubernetes, vagrant, openstack and more. So here is a just a reminder for the future me to just throw these lines at the terminal (preferably as a root user).

UNAME=$(uname -r)
yum install g++ gcc make kernel-headers kernel-devel-${UNAME%.*} -y

1. Then you can just open the mounted iso in a terminal.
2. copy the archive to a different system folder.
3. untar it.
4. cd into the unarchived folder.
5. run the perl installer of vmware tools.