Deployment Guide

Mirantis Container Runtime (MCR) is a client-server application with these major components:

• A server which is a type of long-running program called a daemon process (the dockerd command).

• A REST API which specifies interfaces that programs can use to talk to the daemon and instruct it what to do.

• A command line interface (CLI) client (the docker command).

MCR can be installed on several Linux distros as well as on Windows.

Important

To avoid incompatibilities with older components, use the documented installation procedure to ensure that containerd is installed before you upgrade from an older Mirantis Container Runtime release to MCR 29.2 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.x, Rocky Linux 8, or Oracle Linux 8. Installations performed through Launchpad and for Debian- and Ubuntu-based environments are unchanged.

Note

MCR is derived from the Moby project, an open framework created by Docker Inc. As such, most of the product commands and setup instruction are identical to those for Docker Engine.

• Install MCR on Linux distros
• Install MCR on Windows Servers
• Install the license
• Configure telemetry
• Use MCR with Kubernetes
• Use MCR with Docker Swarm
• Install optional components