Setting up a development environment on Linux

In this section, we will set up a development environment on Linux. We will start by installing and configuring Docker Desktop on Linux and configuring Git.

Installing and configuring Docker Desktop on Linux

Installing Docker Desktop on Linux is much more straightforward than on other platforms. Since it’s just another program on Linux, you can go ahead and install it like any other program. We will run Ubuntu, so we have to search for Docker on Ubuntu and head on over to the official Docker installation guide to see how to install Docker on Ubuntu.

If you’re running Red Hat or another distribution, the process will be the same, but you’ll land on a different page. The Docker download page provides the .deb and .rpm packages from Ubuntu, Debian, and Fedora Linux distributions and architectures.

We will start by ensuring that we don’t have any Docker version installed, and to do that, we can run the...