The Ops Perspective

In this and the next three lessons, you’ll complete all of the following:

• Check Docker is working

• Download an image

• Start a container from the image

• Execute a command inside the container

• Delete the container

Let’s start with verifying that Docker is properly installed in the environment provided to you.

Verifying the Installation

A typical Docker installation installs the client and the engine on the same machine and configures them to talk to each other.

In the terminal provided below, run a docker version command to ensure both are installed and running.