The Ops Perspective

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

• Check that Docker is working properly.

• 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.