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Docker on Raspberry Pi

I recently purchased Raspberry Pi 2 modelB and I wanted to use it to try out some home IoT projects. I wanted to combine Docker with Raspberry Pi so that I can develop IoT application using Containers. There is already lot of work ongoing to get Docker working on Raspberry Pi and I learnt that it is pretty easy to use it currently. In this blog, I will cover how I setup my Raspberry Pi in headless mode and how I got Docker working in Raspberry Pi. I collected the steps from different websites and I have tried to put them together in this blog.

Model used:

We can buy Raspberry Pi base board alone or a starter kit which contains basic accessories along with the board. I bought this model from amazon which included powersupply, case, ethernet cable, hdmi cable, 8GB SD card with Noobs OS installed.

Basic setup:

I wanted to operate Pi in headless mode since I don’t have a separate monitor at home. Rather than using Noobs and then installing Raspbian OS, I preferred directly installing Raspbian OS in the SD card.

Burning Raspbian OS into SD card:

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