How to install Docker on Debian?

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Update the apt package index and install packages to allow apt to use a repository over HTTPS:

sudo apt-get install ca-certificates curl gnupg

add Docker’s official GPG key:

sudo install -m 0755 -d /etc/apt/keyrings
curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/debian/gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg
sudo chmod a+r /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg

setup repository

echo \
  "deb [arch="$(dpkg --print-architecture)" signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg] https://download.docker.com/linux/debian \
  "$(. /etc/os-release && echo "$VERSION_CODENAME")" stable" | \
	  sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null

update packages

sudo apt update

install Docker engine

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

enable docker service start on boot

sudo systemctl enable docker.service
sudo systemctl enable containerd.service

add user to docker group to run docker without sudo

sudo usermod -aG docker ${USER}