Sometimes it can be helpful to have a specific docker version that doesn’t change with a dnf update. To manually set the docker version, do the following.

Install dnf versionlock

dnf install 'dnf-command(versionlock)'

Next, lock the version for Docker and the Docker CLI.

dnf versionlock add docker-ce-3:27.5.0 docker-ce-cli-1:27.5.0

If you need to downgrade docker, you can do that with the following.

dnf downgrade docker-ce-3:27.5.0 docker-ce-cli-1:27.5.0

That should be it. If you want to check and see what packages are locked, run

dnf versionlock list

Example output:

Last metadata expiration check: 0:01:39 ago on Tue 08 Apr 2025 01:01:10 AM UTC.
docker-ce-3:27.5.0-1.el9.*
docker-ce-cli-1:27.5.0-1.el9.*