Installing Docker

Overview

Teaching: 5 min
Exercises: 15 min

Questions

• What equipment do I need?

• How do I install Docker?

Objectives

• Install Docker on your machine

Installing Docker is relatively straightforward, particularly because of the excellent documentation they provide. Still you want to set aside some time to do it properly and test it out.

Installing

Go to the offical Docker site and their installation instructions to install Docker for your operating system.

We see no need to go beyond the documentation they provide so we leave it up to you to follow their installation procedure.

Testing

As you walk through their documentation, you will eventually come to a point where you will run a very simple test, usually involving their hello-world container.

You can find their documentation for this step here.

Testing their code can be summed up by the ability to run (without generating any errors) the following commands.

docker --version

docker run hello-world

Key Points

• For up-to-date details for installing Docker, the official documentation is the best bet.

• Make sure you were able to download and run Docker’s hello-world example.