# Docker progress?

**URL:** <https://discourse.chef.io/t/docker-progress/3911>\
**Category:** Chef Infra (archive)\
**Created:** [May 6, 2013, 11:52pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/docker-progress/3911 "2013-05-06T23:52:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Brian\_Akins](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.chef.io/brian_akins/32/298_2.png) [@Brian\_Akins](https://discourse.chef.io/u/Brian_Akins)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2013, 11:52pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/docker-progress/3911/1 "2013-05-06T23:52:44Z")

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A few people were buzzing about docker at ChefConf. Has anyone made any  
progress? I’m still in the “idea” phase but it seems like docker could be a  
useful tool, particularly for some of our “problem” apps.

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**Author:** ![Thom\_May](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.chef.io/thom_may/32/130_2.png) [@Thom\_May](https://discourse.chef.io/u/Thom_May)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2013, 11:07am UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/docker-progress/3911/2 "2013-05-07T11:07:49Z")

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i spent a small amount of time trying to get it running with CentOS/RHEL 6,  
but the dependencies it has on the kernel are pretty stringent - it needs  
AUFS, and it also uses iproute to configure bridges (rather than brctl),  
which as far as I could tell isn't supported/exposed by the version of  
iproute in rhel6.  
If you're using a modern ubuntu/debian/fedora it looks really interesting.

On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 4:52 PM, Brian Akins [brian@akins.org](mailto:brian@akins.org) wrote:

> A few people were buzzing about docker at ChefConf. Has anyone made any  
> progress? I'm still in the "idea" phase but it seems like docker could be a  
> useful tool, particularly for some of our "problem" apps.