Docker Installation

The easiest way of installing Docker is by downloading Docker Desktop. Docker Desktop is a nice GUI front-end for Docker, so you can see your containers, images, active builds, login to your Docker Hub account, etc. It also comes with the Docker command line tools that you'll need for building Docker images.

Download Docker Desktop for your computer and follow the instructions to install it.

On Mac, you can access the Docker command line tools by calling docker from Terminal.

On Windows, the Docker command line tools will be invoked by calling docker.exe from the Command Prompt.

For brevity's sake, the rest of this material will refer to the Docker command line tools by calling docker. If you're following along on Windows, make sure to replace docker with docker.exe.