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Installing Docker

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Installing Docker

Docker is installed via package manager.

Arch Linux 

$ sudo pacman -S docker
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Debian/Ubuntu Linux 

$ sudo apt-get install docker.io
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Starting Docker Engine

Start the Docker daemon which provides the Docker Engine. This process serves the Docker API and manages Docker containers.

$ sudo systemctl start docker.service
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If you want Docker Engine to automatically start when you system boots issue the below command.

$ sudo systemctl enable docker.service
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Verify that Docker Engine is running.

$ docker info
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Verify that you can run containers. The below will download the latest Arch Linux image and use it to run a "Hello World" bash script in the container.

$ docker run -it --rm archlinux bash
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