Verification of Docker Installation
Step 3: Verify the docker installation and versions,
- Run the following command in the command prompt to check the docker version.
docker --version
- After that we will receive a Beta invitation email When you start docker for the first time.
How to Install Docker on Windows?
Before understanding the concept of Docker, let’s first discuss the concept of Hypervisors. So in an IT Company, or any cooperate, there is a development team, a testing team, and an operation team for developing the application, testing it, and deploying it. Now suppose the developers are working on a different OS, for example, let’s say macOS, and they used some dependencies or libraries as per the language they are using, so they just won’t hand the software to the testing team, but also the libraries, but now, the application didn’t run the tester’s machine, but it worked on the developer’s machine, maybe because the tester’s machine has different OS features than the developer’s one.
So now, devs have to send the OS, but that is not practically possible, as one can’t just copy the C drive and hand it over, that’s where the concept of Hypervisors comes into the picture, think of this as a virtual machine or Wim-ware, so you have the physical hardware, you host an OS on it, and the OS can now host another OS also called Guest OS, and this guest OS can be packed and send to the testing team.
Table of Content
- What is Docker?
- Requirements of Windows For Downloading Docker
- Specifications for Docker Desktop Installation
- How to Install Docker Desktop on Windows? A Step-By-Step Guide
- How to Start Docker Desktop?
- How To Install Docker Desktop from The Command Line?
- Verification of Docker Installation
- How To Install Docker On Windows 10?
- How To Install Docker On Windows 11?
- How To Update The Docker In Windows?
- Advantages of Docker In Windows
- How to Uninstall the Docker Desktop Tool? A Step-By-Step Guide
- How To Install And Enable WSL 2 On Windows
- How To Install Docker With WSL 2 Backend On Windows?
- How to Install Docker on Windows Without Docker Desktop? A Step-By-Step Guide
- Conclusion
- Docker Installation on Windows – FAQs
But the problem here is, for every application, one needs a different OS, this will result in a waste of resources as multiple OSs will be running. So for this problem, we have the concept of Containers, the difference between Hypervisors and containers is that we don’t need multiple OS for every application, multiple applications can share the same OS kernel, can’t they? So instead of installing HYPERVISOR, we will be installing Docker.