Setup Docker Engine on Windows using WSL2

Steps to setup docker on Windows 10/11 system without installing Docker Desktop application, which is just a GUI for docker.

First, you need to install WSL (Windows subsystem for Linux) if not already installed -

wsl --install

Note: It will install ubuntu linux as default linux flavour. If you need to check and install any other use below command:

        wsl --list --online

        wsl --install kali-linux

Next, install docker using below commands

# Add Docker's official GPG key:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install ca-certificates curl gnupg

sudo install -m 0755 -d /etc/apt/keyrings

curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg

sudo chmod a+r /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg

# Add the repository to Apt sources:

echo \

  "deb [arch="$(dpkg --print-architecture)" signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu \

  "$(. /etc/os-release && echo "$VERSION_CODENAME")" stable" | \

  sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null

sudo apt-get update

          sudo apt-get install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-buildx-plugin docker-compose-plugin

Last, verify docker is installed and running successfully.

        docker run hello-world

        docker run docker/getting-started

Verify all processes running on ubuntu machine.

Finally, to view and setup getting-started with docker code, download and install git using :

    sudo apt-get install git

Ref - https://medium.com/geekculture/run-docker-in-windows-10-11-wsl-without-docker-desktop-a2a7eb90556d

Ref - https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/ubuntu/#installation-methods