Docker Installation

Contributors: Alicia Wang, Alanna Zhou

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Docker Installation

Contributors: Alicia Wang, Alanna Zhou

We’ll be using Docker in this course as a platform-agnostic way of ensuring that all development is done on the same operating system, letting us (the course staff) take care of installation issues, and avoid OS-specific installation issues.

Installation Instructions

Mac

1) Install Docker

Windows

Docker on Windows works fairly well on newer machines. You may have to install the Linux kernel update package. Try this and if it doesn't work, come to Office Hours, because the other option is daunting.

1) Install Docker

Windows (Really Bad Alternative)

The other option is downloading a Virtualbox (a Virtual Machine) and installing Docker through there.

1) Set up your VM

2) Install Docker on your VM

2) Install Docker Compose on your VM

Linux

1) Install Docker (Ubuntu)

2) Install Docker Compose (Ubuntu)

For other Linux distributions, see the individual guides:

Is It Working?

You can check that you've successfully installed Docker with: docker --version

Typical Errors

Is Docker daemon running?

If you're using Docker Desktop, make sure to start the Docker application before attempting to run Docker commands.

Has Docker daemon been "starting" for a long time, and unable to run?

Error response from daemon: dial unix docker.raw.sock: connect: no such file or directory

This means that your Docker desktop is having trouble running (it may be "starting" for a long time), and that might be because you don't have enough space on your computer -- try to delete some stuff!

Is the port already being used somewhere?

Try docker rm -fv $(docker ps -aq) but it's recommended that you use the Docker Compose command (that is, if you've installed Docker Compose and have a docker-compose.yml file in the directory that you will be running the following command): docker-compose down