The best place to learn how to install Docker on your laptop is the Docker documentation. What we're looking for is the Docker Community Edition (CE), which is all we need:
- macOS installation: https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-mac/install/
- Windows installation: https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-windows/install/
- Ubuntu installation: https://docs.docker.com/install/linux/docker-ce/ubuntu/
Instructions are also available for several other distributions. Some useful post-install Linux instructions are available at https://docs.docker.com/install/linux/linux-postinstall/.
Docker runs natively on Linux, and the installation is simply the Docker daemon and command-line tools. To run Docker on macOS or Windows, you need to install the Docker for Windows or Docker for Mac applications. These applications manage a virtual Linux environment in a lightweight virtual machine, within which is a Docker Engine instance running on Linux. In the...
