How to install Docker and Docker Compose

Docker is a set of platform as a service (PAAS) products that use OS-level virtualization to deliver software in packages called containers.

Dependencies

Update the system

sudo apt update

Docker Install

Install docker

sudo apt install docker.io

To check whether docker has installed correctly, run the following command

sudo docker -v

`Docker version 20.10.12, build 20.10.12-0ubuntu2~20.04.1

To run docker containers the docker run command is used

docker run hello-world

Unable to find image 'hello-world:latest' locally
latest: Pulling from library/hello-world
0e03bdcc26d7: Pull complete
Digest: sha256:6a65f928fb91fcfbc963f7aa6d57c8eeb426ad9a20c7ee045538ef34847f44f1
Status: Downloaded newer image for hello-world:latest

Hello from Docker!
This message shows that your installation appears to be working correctly.

Docker Compose Install

Install docker-compose

sudo apt install docker-compose

Setting up a docker-compose.yml file

mkdir example
cd example

touch docker-compose.yml
nano  docker-compose.yml

Below is the docker compose file for setting up nginx proxy manager as an example.

version: '3'
services:
  app:
    image: 'jc21/nginx-proxy-manager:latest'
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - '80:80'
      - '81:81'
      - '443:443'
    volumes:
      - ./data:/data
      - ./letsencrypt:/etc/letsencrypt

To run the docker-compose.yml file and make it into a container, the follwing command can be run:

docker-compose up -d 

The `–force-create flag can be added to remake the container

docker-compose up -d --force-create

To check the status of containers docker ps can be run.