How To Install Docker in Your System?
- Visit the official Docker website and simply download the Docker for Desktop latest version
- Install the Docker desktop on your system
- If you facing any issues (Docker not starting, Stuck while loading the start page) download the lower versions of Docker which might fix the issues. If you still facing the issue check the docker official documentation.
- Now open your IDE (Visual Studio Code is recommended)and install the Docker extension
- Once you’ve installed the extension you’ll see the docker icon on the left side which means docker is successfully installed in your IDE
How to Use Docker For Local Development and Testing?
Whenever you want to start a project you first check for the requirement i.e. we do the requirement analysis then we look for prerequisites dependencies. We install those dependencies and prerequisites and we simply built our project.
Suppose you are the person who built the project and you want to make your project open source. So there is another person who wants to contribute to your open source project first he/she will need to go through all dependencies and prerequisites for your project and that’s a lot of work.
That’s where docker comes into play, Docker is basically a text file that contains all the needed dependencies and prerequisites for a given project. You will simply share the docker file with your project so people can use that docker file to contribute to your project without even installing the dependencies and prerequisites.
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