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Installing Docker Desktop

Installing Docker Desktop - Kubernetes Tutorial

From the course: Debugging Kubernetes

Installing Docker Desktop

Installing Docker is easy. Let's learn how to do that on Windows and the Mac. We will be installing Docker Desktop. Docker Desktop provides a really convenient front end for interacting with containers. Since Docker technically only works on Linux machines, Docker Desktop also handles creating a high performance Linux VM behind the scenes and makes using it easy and seamless. Let's go over a few requirements that you'll need to have in order to install Docker Desktop. On the Mac, you'll need to be running at least macOS 10.15 or newer. On Windows, you need to be running Windows 10 or above. Regardless of whether you'll be using Mac or Windows, you'll need to have at least 4 gigabytes of free RAM on both. Let's start with the Mac. What I'm going to do is open a browser. I'm using Safari in this case, however Google Chrome, Brave, Edge, Firefox, whatever you like to use is totally fine. What I'm going to do from here is click on…

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