Docker is an open-source project to easily create lightweight, portable, self-sufficient containers from any application. The same container that a developer builds and tests on a laptop can run at scale, in production, on VMs, bare metal, OpenStack clusters, public clouds and more. To use docker as a limited user, add your user to the 'docker' group: # groupadd -r -g 281 docker # usermod -a -G docker <your_username> This will require logging out and back in and also restart docker daemon. To have the docker daemon start and stop with your host, add to /etc/rc.d/rc.local: if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.docker ]; then /etc/rc.d/rc.docker start fi and to /etc/rc.d/rc.local_shutdown (creating it if needed): if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.docker ]; then /etc/rc.d/rc.docker stop fi If you are interested in enabling cgroup memory resource controll over swap as well, then append "swapaccount=1" to your kernel's parameters. This is often in /etc/lilo.conf, on the "append" variable. NOTE: google-go-lang is only needed at compile time - not needed for runtime. Docker doesn't support x86, only x86_64