Install Docker on RHEL 8

Yesterday, I tried to install docker on RHEL 8 VM(As Redhat provides a free subscription for up to 16 VM’s, All you need to do is to sign in to the Developer Portal and accept the current T&C’s, then you can use the free no-cost RHEL developer subscription More info here ).
At the start I ran into issues, so thought of sharing my experience.

Lets start:
After configuring the repo by following an online blog, I ran into error shown below:
DNF version: 4.2.23
cachedir: /var/cache/dnf
Docker CE Stable — x86_64 46 kB/s | 3.5 kB 00:00
created by dnf config-manager from https://download.docker.com/linux/centos/docker-ce.rep 292 B/s | 381 B 00:01
Errors during downloading metadata for repository ‘download.docker.com_linux_centos_docker-ce.rep’:
— Status code: 404 for https://download.docker.com/linux/centos/docker-ce.rep/repodata/repomd.xml (IP: 13.249.214.4)
Error: Failed to download metadata for repo ‘download.docker.com_linux_centos_docker-ce.rep’: Cannot download repomd.xml: Cannot download repodata/repomd.xml: All mirrors were tried

The above issue occurred due to the wrong path in the docker repo, which was moved permanently more info here.

you can follow below steps to install docker flawlessly on RHEL8
Step 1. Install the yum-utils package (which provides the yum-config-manager utility) and set up the stable repository.
$ sudo yum install -y yum-utils

Step 2. Configure the docker repo
$ sudo yum-config-manager \
--add-repo \
https://download.docker.com/linux/centos/docker-ce.repo

Step 3. Install docker Community edition
$ sudo yum install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io

Step 4. Enable docker service

$ sudo systemctl enable docker.service

Step 5. Start docker engine
$ sudo systemctl start docker.service

Step 6. Run docker Hello world

$ sudo docker run hello-world

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