Docker on Windows

Overview

With Docker Desktop for Windows changing licensing, you might want to get up and running using Docker on your Windows machine without it.

Install Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)

Windows 10 build 2004 or higher (including Windows 11) it's now super easy to configure WSL:

wsl --install

Install Docker on Ubuntu WSL

Set up the official Docker repository

# Update the package indexes
sudo apt-get update

# Pre-requisite packages
sudo apt-get install ca-certificates curl gnupg lsb-release

# Add Docker’s official GPG key
sudo mkdir -p /etc/apt/keyrings
curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg

# Add the stable Docker repository
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

Install Docker Engine

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-compose-plugin

Start Docker

sudo service docker start

Verify

sudo docker run hello-world

Uninstall Docker Engine

This should remove Docker, including any older versions that had different names.

sudo apt-get remove docker docker-engine docker.io docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-compose-plugin

References

Install Docker Engine on Ubuntu