How to upgrade docker in latest Amazon linux AMI

Question

I am using Amazon linux AMI in Opsworks and the Amazon linux AMI are the latest one (OS Amazon Linux 2017.03).

The issue is that this AMI comes with docker version 17.03.2-ce, however I need to install version 17.05 or later (because I want to modify "ingress" network in docker swarm which is only possible in the latest docker versions.)

Looks like Amazon officially supports version only till 17.03.

If I try to upgrade the docker manually from the centos rpm/repository, I get the following error(possibly because I an in Redhat flavour and docker doesn't seem to support that at the moment):

--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: docker-ce-17.06.1.ce-1.el7.centos.x86_64 (docker-ce-stable)
       Requires: libsystemd.so.0(LIBSYSTEMD_209)(64bit)
Error: Package: docker-ce-17.06.1.ce-1.el7.centos.x86_64 (docker-ce-stable)
       Requires: systemd-units
Error: Package: docker-ce-17.06.1.ce-1.el7.centos.x86_64 (docker-ce-stable)
       Requires: libsystemd.so.0()(64bit)
Error: Package: docker-ce-17.06.1.ce-1.el7.centos.x86_64 (docker-ce-stable)
       Requires: container-selinux >= 2.9
You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem

cat /proc/version

Linux version 4.9.43-17.38.amzn1.x86_64 (mockbuild@gobi-build-60008) (gcc version 4.8.3 20140911 (Red Hat 4.8.3-9) (GCC) )

Is there anyway I can upgrade the docker version without having to wait for the Amazon release?

Answer 1

https://docs.docker.com/samples/library/amazonlinux/

The latest Amazon Linux 2017.09 has Docker version 17.06.2-ce