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Installing Docker on Ubuntu Bionic

  • Created: 11:02 06/03/2017
  • Modified: 00:20 28/09/2018

Prerequisites

Process

Commands

# Update
install update
##
# Install dependencies
install apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl software-properties-common -y
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# Add GPG Key
curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo apt-key add -
# Add repository
osudo add-apt-repository "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) stable"

# Update
install update
# Make sure you are about to install from docker repo not Ubuntu
apt-cache policy docker-ce

  • Output should be similar to:
    docker-ce:
    Installed: (none)
    Candidate: 18.03.1~ce~3-0~ubuntu
    Version table:
    18.03.1~ce~3-0~ubuntu 500
    500 https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu bionic/stable amd64 Packages

# Install Docker Community Edition
install docker-ce

Check Status

osudo systemctl status docker

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