Installing Docker is monumental for your Home Lab. This quick article will give you all the steps required to do the installation and to test your installation as well.

Open a Terminal session and write the following command:

sudo apt install docker.io

You will be ask permission to install and continue

y

To validate the installer, prompt the following command:

docker --version

You should get:

Docker version 26.1.3, build 26.1.3-0ubuntu1~24.04.1

To test if it is running, prompt the following command:

sudo systemctl status docker

You should get a screen with the docker.service as "running". To get back to command line do CTRL+C

To make sure that everything runs smoothly, write the following command:

sudo docker run hello-world

You should get a Hello from Docker.

You are ready to enjoy pulling docker images!