To get started with Docker Engine on Ubuntu, make sure you meet the prerequisites, and then follow the installation steps.
Firewall limitationsWarning
Before you install Docker, make sure you consider the following security implications and firewall incompatibilities.
iptables-nft
and iptables-legacy
. Firewall rules created with nft
are not supported on a system with Docker installed. Make sure that any firewall rulesets you use are created with iptables
or ip6tables
, and that you add them to the DOCKER-USER
chain, see Packet filtering and firewalls.To install Docker Engine, you need the 64-bit version of one of these Ubuntu versions:
Docker Engine for Ubuntu is compatible with x86_64 (or amd64), armhf, arm64, s390x, and ppc64le (ppc64el) architectures.
Uninstall old versionsNote
Installation on Ubuntu derivative distributions, such as Linux Mint, is not officially supported (though it may work).
Before you can install Docker Engine, you need to uninstall any conflicting packages.
Your Linux distribution may provide unofficial Docker packages, which may conflict with the official packages provided by Docker. You must uninstall these packages before you install the official version of Docker Engine.
The unofficial packages to uninstall are:
docker.io
docker-compose
docker-compose-v2
docker-doc
podman-docker
Moreover, Docker Engine depends on containerd
and runc
. Docker Engine bundles these dependencies as one bundle: containerd.io
. If you have installed the containerd
or runc
previously, uninstall them to avoid conflicts with the versions bundled with Docker Engine.
Run the following command to uninstall all conflicting packages:
apt-get
might report that you have none of these packages installed.
Images, containers, volumes, and networks stored in /var/lib/docker/
aren't automatically removed when you uninstall Docker. If you want to start with a clean installation, and prefer to clean up any existing data, read the uninstall Docker Engine section.
You can install Docker Engine in different ways, depending on your needs:
Docker Engine comes bundled with Docker Desktop for Linux. This is the easiest and quickest way to get started.
Set up and install Docker Engine from Docker's apt
repository.
Install it manually and manage upgrades manually.
Use a convenience script. Only recommended for testing and development environments.
apt
repository
Before you install Docker Engine for the first time on a new host machine, you need to set up the Docker apt
repository. Afterward, you can install and update Docker from the repository.
Set up Docker's apt
repository.
Install the Docker packages.
To install the latest version, run:
To install a specific version of Docker Engine, start by listing the available versions in the repository:
Select the desired version and install:
Verify that the installation is successful by running the hello-world
image:
This command downloads a test image and runs it in a container. When the container runs, it prints a confirmation message and exits.
You have now successfully installed and started Docker Engine.
Upgrade Docker EngineTip
Receiving errors when trying to run without root?
The
docker
user group exists but contains no users, which is why youâre required to usesudo
to run Docker commands. Continue to Linux postinstall to allow non-privileged users to run Docker commands and for other optional configuration steps.
To upgrade Docker Engine, follow step 2 of the installation instructions, choosing the new version you want to install.
Install from a packageIf you can't use Docker's apt
repository to install Docker Engine, you can download the deb
file for your release and install it manually. You need to download a new file each time you want to upgrade Docker Engine.
Select your Ubuntu version in the list.
Go to pool/stable/
and select the applicable architecture (amd64
, armhf
, arm64
, or s390x
).
Download the following deb
files for the Docker Engine, CLI, containerd, and Docker Compose packages:
containerd.io_<version>_<arch>.deb
docker-ce_<version>_<arch>.deb
docker-ce-cli_<version>_<arch>.deb
docker-buildx-plugin_<version>_<arch>.deb
docker-compose-plugin_<version>_<arch>.deb
Install the .deb
packages. Update the paths in the following example to where you downloaded the Docker packages.
The Docker daemon starts automatically.
Verify that the installation is successful by running the hello-world
image:
This command downloads a test image and runs it in a container. When the container runs, it prints a confirmation message and exits.
You have now successfully installed and started Docker Engine.
Upgrade Docker EngineTip
Receiving errors when trying to run without root?
The
docker
user group exists but contains no users, which is why youâre required to usesudo
to run Docker commands. Continue to Linux postinstall to allow non-privileged users to run Docker commands and for other optional configuration steps.
To upgrade Docker Engine, download the newer package files and repeat the installation procedure, pointing to the new files.
Install using the convenience scriptDocker provides a convenience script at https://get.docker.com/ to install Docker into development environments non-interactively. The convenience script isn't recommended for production environments, but it's useful for creating a provisioning script tailored to your needs. Also refer to the install using the repository steps to learn about installation steps to install using the package repository. The source code for the script is open source, and you can find it in the docker-install
repository on GitHub .
Always examine scripts downloaded from the internet before running them locally. Before installing, make yourself familiar with potential risks and limitations of the convenience script:
root
or sudo
privileges to run.Tip
Preview script steps before running. You can run the script with the
--dry-run
option to learn what steps the script will run when invoked:
This example downloads the script from https://get.docker.com/ and runs it to install the latest stable release of Docker on Linux:
You have now successfully installed and started Docker Engine. The docker
service starts automatically on Debian based distributions. On RPM
based distributions, such as CentOS, Fedora, RHEL or SLES, you need to start it manually using the appropriate systemctl
or service
command. As the message indicates, non-root users can't run Docker commands by default.
Install pre-releasesUse Docker as a non-privileged user, or install in rootless mode?
The installation script requires
root
orsudo
privileges to install and use Docker. If you want to grant non-root users access to Docker, refer to the post-installation steps for Linux. You can also install Docker withoutroot
privileges, or configured to run in rootless mode. For instructions on running Docker in rootless mode, refer to run the Docker daemon as a non-root user (rootless mode).
Docker also provides a convenience script at https://test.docker.com/ to install pre-releases of Docker on Linux. This script is equal to the script at get.docker.com
, but configures your package manager to use the test channel of the Docker package repository. The test channel includes both stable and pre-releases (beta versions, release-candidates) of Docker. Use this script to get early access to new releases, and to evaluate them in a testing environment before they're released as stable.
To install the latest version of Docker on Linux from the test channel, run:
Upgrade Docker after using the convenience scriptIf you installed Docker using the convenience script, you should upgrade Docker using your package manager directly. There's no advantage to re-running the convenience script. Re-running it can cause issues if it attempts to re-install repositories which already exist on the host machine.
Uninstall the Docker Engine, CLI, containerd, and Docker Compose packages:
Images, containers, volumes, or custom configuration files on your host aren't automatically removed. To delete all images, containers, and volumes:
Remove source list and keyrings
You have to delete any edited configuration files manually.
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