Install Manually

If you want to run cri-dockerd on an unsupported platform, you can manually install the binary and setup the service. This is a more involved process and requires you to manually install the binary and setup the service. The following instructions are for a Linux system using systemd.

Note: These commands should be ran as root

Note: the release packages will install to /usr/bin which is reserved for binaries managed by a package manager. Manual installation doesn’t involve a package manager and thus uses /usr/local/bin and the service file must be edited to reflect this.

Begin by downloading the latest .tgz archive for your platform from the releases page.

Next, extract the archive and change to the extracted directory:

tar -xzf cri-dockerd-<version>.linux-amd64.tgz

Install the binary to /usr/local/bin by running the following command as root from within the extracted directory:

install -o root -g root -m 0755 cri-dockerd /usr/local/bin/cri-dockerd

Note: the cp command cannot be used instead of install.

Setup the systemd service and socket to start cri-dockerd. Download the systemd service and socket files from the packaging/systemd directory.

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Mirantis/cri-dockerd/master/packaging/systemd/cri-docker.service
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Mirantis/cri-dockerd/master/packaging/systemd/cri-docker.socket

install cri-docker.service /etc/systemd/system
install cri-docker.socket /etc/systemd/system

Enable and start the cri-dockerd service:

sed -i -e 's,/usr/bin/cri-dockerd,/usr/local/bin/cri-dockerd,' /etc/systemd/system/cri-docker.service
systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl enable --now cri-docker.socket

Verify that cri-dockerd is installed and running:

systemctl status cri-docker