Install Docker on Ubuntu 16.04 AWS, DigitalOcean Ubuntu, or any Ubuntu Version

Docker is a container platform which allows to run application processes in a container.

Check the current os version

for ubuntu

uname -a

Linux server1 4.4.0-31-generic #50-ubuntu SMP ......

Check ubuntu version

cat /etc/lsb-release

Step1:

add GPG key for offical docker repo to the ubuntu system

$curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo apt-key add -

Step2:

$sudo add-apt-repository "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) stable"

Step3:

$sudo apt-get update

Step4:
Install Docker CE, docker daemon start automatically

$sudo apt-get install docker-ce

Installtion done. Ready to go ......

Step5:

Verify docker installed correctly or not

 $sudo docker run hello-world

Check Docker version:

$ docker version

Uninstall docker

$ sudo apt-get purge docker-ce