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Docker for Debian

9 12 2018

Docker is a computer program that performs operating-system-level virtualization, also known as "containerization". And this is the easiest way to get docker installed on your Debian OS. This involves downloading the .deb file for your release and install it manually. You may need to download a new file each time you want to upgrade Docker.

Go to https://download.docker.com/linux/debian/dists/, choose your Debian version, browse to pool/stable/, choose either amd64 or armhf, and download the .deb file for the Docker CE(Community Edition) version you want to install.

Install Docker CE, changing the path below to the path where you downloaded the Docker package.

$ sudo dpkg -i /path/to/package.deb

Verify that Docker CE is installed correctly by running docker version

Disable docker running at startup.

$ sudo systemctl disable docker.service
$ sudo systemctl disable docker.socket

Use systemctl start docker.service to start docker manually when you need.

Install docker-compose by pip install docker-compose