Various Products for Various Needs

In a production environment that runs containers hosting critical applications, you would rather have your favorite admins install Docker Enterprise.

However, on your development machine or a continuous integration build machine, you can use the free Docker Engine Community or Docker Desktop depending on your machine type.

In short:

Use	Product
Developer machine	Docker Engine Community or Docker Desktop
Small server, small expectations	Docker Engine Community
Serious stuff/Critical applications	Docker Engine Enterprise or Kubernetes

The rest of this chapter will point you to installation steps for various platforms.