Prerequisite: Docker install

First, download and install Docker Desktop. You can find instructions for this at https://docs.docker.com/get-docker/.

There is also an excellent official tutorial for getting started at https://docs.docker.com/get-started/, but we recommend that you wait to read that until after you’ve gone through this chapter. We’re going to cover some of the basics, but with less focus on specific command-line flags, and more focus on how you’ll use these commands and workflows as an application developer.

Now that you’ve got Docker installed, let’s jump into actually starting our first container!