How to Docker on Raspberry PI (Raspbian)

If you like tinkering with Docker and have a Raspberry PI available, you’re in luck! You can now install Docker on your RPI without messing with complicated stuff, fire up a terminal and follow this tutorial.

Prerequisites

In order to follow this tutorial you will need:

• A Raspberry PI with Raspbian Wheezy, Jessie, Stretch or superior.
• Administrator privileges
• About 10 minutes if you have a fast connection.

Setting up the required software

In this step we’re going to install the required software in order to set up the Docker repository correctly and safely:

$ sudo apt-get install \
     apt-transport-https \
     ca-certificates \
     curl \
     gnupg2 \
     software-properties-common

curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/debian/gpg | sudo apt-key add -

Add the repository

In this step we’re going to add the repository:

$ echo "deb [arch=armhf] https://download.docker.com/linux/debian \
     $(lsb_release -cs) stable" | \
     sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list

Install Docker CE

And finally:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install docker-ce
systemctl enable --now docker

And voilà! You now have installed Docker on your Raspberry PI! You can continue your reading about Docker here:

• Docker Basics
• Docker what is it and how to get started
• Docker compose: what is it? How can you use it?
• What is Docker Swarm?

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