Pine64 A64(+) + Armbian Buster + Docker

April 13th 2020
2 min read

Introduction.

Following the list of step to install Docker in the Pine64 cluster:

Armbian.

Download Armbian Buster image for pine64
Burn ssd using Etcher
Start Pine64 with the new ssd. It will take few seconds because is resizing the sdd partition to use the full size. After that:
1. Login using Log in as: root Password: 1234
2. First login as root will ask for a new password.
3. First login will ask to create a new admin user.
4. Login using the new user.
Change host name. The default hostname is pine64. We are going to create a small cluster, so we don’t want to use the same name in all nodes.
1. Change hostname
```
hostnamectl
hostnamectl set-hostname pine641
```
2. Replace all references to the old name in /etc/hosts
```
sudo vi /etc/hosts
```
3. Reboot

Update and install commons used software. The Debian image installed is the server version, so it comes with htop, openssh, etc..

sudo apt update
sudo apt full-upgrade
sudo apt install neovim
sudo update-alternatives --config editor
sudo update-alternatives --config vi

Set static ip. I’m going to use 192.168.1.191 to 194 for the Pine64 nodes. So, I will add the static configuration in /etc/network/interfaces:

auto eth0
#iface eth0 inet dhcp
iface eth0 inet static
   address 192.168.1.191
   netmask 255.255.255.0
   gateway 192.168.1.1
   dns-nameservers 192.168.1.1

And restart the network service:

sudo service networking restart

Docker

Docker officially supports Debian Buster 10, so let’s follow the documentation:

sudo apt-get remove docker docker-engine docker.io containerd runc
sudo apt autoremove
sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install \
    apt-transport-https \
    ca-certificates \
    curl \
    gnupg-agent \
    software-properties-common

curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/debian/gpg | sudo apt-key add -

sudo apt-key fingerprint 0EBFCD88

sudo add-apt-repository \
   "deb [arch=arm64] https://download.docker.com/linux/debian \
   $(lsb_release -cs) \
   stable"

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io

sudo groupadd docker
sudo usermod -aG docker $USER

Restart the session, to be sure changes in the user groups are available, and then:

docker run hello-world