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Installing Docker & Docker Compose

Docker Installation

Recommend installing the Pi-Hosted version from Novaspirit Tech's Github repository

https://github.com/novaspirit/pi-hosted

Warning

curl and/or git are not installed by default and will be required to run the script, either via the wget commands or by cloning the repository to your local machine.

  1. Run the following command: 

    # Script to install Docker
wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pi-hosted/pi-hosted/master/install_docker.sh | bash

  2. Reboot for changes to take effect

  3. Run the following command: 

    # To install Portainer
wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pi-hosted/pi-hosted/master/install_portainer.sh | bash


    # To update Portainer
wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pi-hosted/pi-hosted/master/update_portainer.sh | bash

  4. Log into Portainer via port 9000

  5. Click Settings in the lower left corner, and paste the appropriate link in the "App Templates" field:

    Architecture URL
    ARM64 https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pi-hosted/pi-hosted/master/template/portainer-v3-arm64.json
    AMD64 https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pi-hosted/pi-hosted/master/template/portainer-v3-amd64.json

Official Docker Documentation

https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/ubuntu/

Add the Repository

# 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

Install Docker and Components

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

Manage Docker via a non-root user

sudo groupadd docker

sudo usermod -aG docker $USER

Log out and log back in to verify changes

Start Docker on system boot

sudo systemctl enable docker.service
sudo systemctl enable containerd.service