Installing Docker and Compose on Linux

Let’s learn how to install Docker and Docker Compose on Linux.

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Docker

There are lots of ways to install Docker on Linux and most of them are easy. The hardest part is usually deciding which Linux distribution to use.

The internet has lots of guides for installing and working with Docker on many distributions of Linux. In this section, we’ll look at one of the ways to install on Ubuntu Linux 20.04 LTS. The procedure assumes you’ve already installed Linux and are logged on.

  1. Update the apt package index.

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