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

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

sudo mkdir -p /etc/apt/keyrings
curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg

echo \
  "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/docker.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 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 remove docker docker-engine docker.io containerd runc

Links

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🚀 Don’t forget to check out the 🚀Launchpad repo with all of the quick start source files