Docker on Debian ================ Docker has been built and tested on Wheezy. All docker functionality works out of the box, except for memory limitation as the stock debian kernel disables it by default. To enable docker memory limitation, the kernel needs to be loaded with boot parameters: cgroup_enable=memory swapaccount=1 Building docker package ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Assuming you have a wheezy system up and running # Get building dependencies sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install -y debhelper build-essential autotools-dev golang # Make the debian package git clone https://github.com/dotcloud/docker.git cd docker/packaging/debian make debian Install docker package ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ sudo dpkg -i lxc-docker_*-1_amd64.deb; sudo apt-get install -f -y