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Install Docker on Ubuntu

Updated Jul 07, 2022 ·

Manual Method​

This is a summary of the commands that you can run to install docker on Ubuntu.

curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo apt-key add - &&
sudo add-apt-repository "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) stable" &&
sudo apt-get update -y 
sudo sudo apt-get install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io -y 
sudo usermod -aG docker ubuntu

For more information, please see official Docker installation guide for more details.

Using Terraform​

Whether you've dabbled around in Terraform or not, this is the fastest way to provision a resource in AWS with Docker installed. This will provision the following:

  • A VPC
  • An EC2 instance with Docker installed

For more details, check out this repository.