How to Install Docker and Docker Compose Ubuntu

This guide will walk you through how to Install Docker Engine, containerd, and Docker Compose on Ubuntu.

If you have an existing version of Docker install, it is best to remove it first.See the Cleaning Up

If you’re installing this on Debian, see Docker’s Debian Install Guide

Install

Set up Docker’s apt repository.

# Add Docker's official GPG key:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ca-certificates curl gnupg
sudo install -m 0755 -d /etc/apt/keyrings
curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg
sudo chmod a+r /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg

# Add the repository to Apt sources:
echo \
  "deb [arch="$(dpkg --print-architecture)" signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu \
  "$(. /etc/os-release && echo "$VERSION_CODENAME")" stable" | \
  sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null
sudo apt-get update

If you use an Ubuntu derivative distro, such as Linux Mint, you may need to use UBUNTU_CODENAME instead of VERSION_CODENAME.

Install the latest version

sudo apt-get install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-buildx-plugin docker-compose-plugin

Check Installed version

docker -v

Check docker compose

docker compose

Check runtime

 sudo docker run hello-world

Use Docker without sudo

sudo usermod -aG docker $USER

You’ll need to log out then back in to apply this

Cleaning Up

If you need to uninstall Docker, run the following

sudo apt-get purge docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-buildx-plugin docker-compose-plugin docker-ce-rootless-extras

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