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Install Docker on WSL

Ubuntu WSL​

In order to follow this guide, Ubuntu WSL must be installed. Review the following wiki to install Ubuntu WSL if needed:

Install Docker​

Open Ubuntu WSL

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Paste the follow commands:

# Add Docker's official GPG key:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ca-certificates curl
sudo install -m 0755 -d /etc/apt/keyrings
sudo curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg -o /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc
sudo chmod a+r /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc

# Add the repository to Apt sources:
echo \
  "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu \
  $(. /etc/os-release && echo "$VERSION_CODENAME") stable" | \
  sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null
sudo apt-get update

Docker can now be installed, paste the following command in and execute it

sudo apt-get install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-buildx-plugin docker-compose-plugin

Docker is now installed. I recommend installing Portainer as it is a great Graphical User Interface for Docker.

Keep Ubuntu VM Running​

If running into issues where the Ubuntu VM keeps shutting down (which was happening to me and closing all my Docker containers). Check out this wiki: