Docker Setup

Windows

For Windows, it is recommended to apply all the latest updates, so that you can take advantage of WSL 2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux). Once your OS is up to date, just follow the directions during Docker setup (you will need to install an additional component when requested).

• download and install Docker Desktop from https://hub.docker.com/editions/community/docker-ce-desktop-windows (see https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-windows/install/).

MacOS

• download and install Docker for Desktop from https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-mac/install/. As for Windows, it already includes docker compose.

Ubuntu

You must install both Docker and Docker compose, as these are separate packages.

Ubuntu - Docker

To install Docker run these commands (see https://docs.docker.com/install/linux/docker-ce/ubuntu/):

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install \
  apt-transport-https \
  ca-certificates \
  curl \
  gnupg \
  lsb-release

curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/docker-archive-keyring.gpg

echo \
 "deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/docker-archive-keyring.gpg] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu \
 $(lsb_release -cs) stable" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io

You can verify that Docker is installed correctly by running the hello-world image:

sudo docker run hello-world

To automatically start Docker:

sudo systemctl start docker

and then:

sudo systemctl enable docker

Check for installation: docker --version.

Ubuntu - Docker-Compose

Docker compose (V2) now comes as a plugin, which is automatically installed by the desktop versions of Docker for Windows/MacOS. As for Linux, you install it with the commands shown here (from https://www.rockyourcode.com/how-to-install-docker-compose-v2-on-linux-2021/):

(1) find the latest release with the v2 tag at https://github.com/docker/compose/tree/v2 (e.g. 2.19.0).

(2) ensure that the Docker CLI plugins directory exists:

mkdir -p ~/.docker/cli-plugins

(3) download the compose CLI plugin (here replace version 2.19.0 with the latest one):

curl -sSL https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/v2.19.0/docker-compose-linux-x86_64 -o ~/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-compose

(4) make it executable:

chmod +x ~/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-compose

(5) check with: docker compose version.

Remember that docker V2 being a plugin no more uses dashes (like docker-compose) but rather spaces (like docker compose).