How to install docker engine and compose on Lubuntu 16.04

Docker is an application that makes it simple and easy to run application processes in a container, which are like virtual machines, only more portable, more resource-friendly, and more dependent on the host operating system. This article is about installing docker engine and docker compose on lubuntu 16.04.

Step by step how to install docker engine on lubuntu 16.04

• Open command line on your lubuntu
• Add the GPG key for the official Docker repository to the system:

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://p80.pool.sks-keyservers.net:80 --recv-keys 58118E89F3A912897C070ADBF76221572C52609D

• Add the Docker repository to APT sources:

sudo apt-add-repository 'deb https://apt.dockerproject.org/repo ubuntu-xenial main'

• Run the update command

sudo apt-get update

• Install docker engine

sudo apt-get install -y docker-engine

Step by step how to install docker compose on lubuntu 16.04

• Open command line on your lubuntu
• Install phyton pip, skip if you already have

sudo apt-get -y install python-pip

• Install docker compose

sudo pip install docker-compose