Setting up a new machine - Cheatsheets

Updating and upgrading Ubuntu

sudo apt update -y && sudo apt upgrade -y

Install a clean installation of Docker

Remove previous/old Docker packages:

for pkg in docker.io docker-doc docker-compose docker-compose-v2 podman-docker containerd runc; do sudo apt-get remove $pkg; done

Run the official Docker Install Script

curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com -o get-docker.sh
sh get-docker.sh

Install Portainer (optional)

Create a docker volume for Portainer:

docker volume create portainer_data

Install Portainer:

docker run -d -p 8000:8000 -p 9443:9443 --name portainer --restart=always -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock -v portainer_data:/data portainer/portainer-ce:latest

Install Watchtower (optional)

Install Watchtower to auto-update containers

docker run -d \
  --name watchtower \
  -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
  containrrr/watchtower --interval 30