How to Install the latest Docker Engine via Docker Script

Introduction

This tutorial describes how to install the latest Docker Engine on your server.

Requirements

• Linux based server

Step 1 - Uninstall old Docker Engine, CLI, containerd, and Docker Compose packages

sudo apt-get purge docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-buildx-plugin docker-compose-plugin docker-ce-rootless-extras

sudo apt-get update

Step 2 - Curl the script for installation from docker

curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com -o get-docker.sh

Step 3 - Dry run the script to check for complications

sudo sh ./get-docker.sh --dry-run

Step 4 - Finally run the script

sudo sh ./get-docker.sh

Step 4 - Verify the installation

docker --version

Conclusion

As you have seen installing the latest Docker Engine is quite simple with the Docker Script provided by Docker directly.

Licence

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