Installing Docker and Docker Compose on Raspberry Pi

This is a simple guide for installing Docker and Docker Compose on the Raspberry Pi. <!–more–>

Enable SSH and Samba

On a fresh install of Raspbian do some basic house keeping and run the config utility to enable SSH.

sudo raspi-config

Install Docker

You can use a script to install docker. All you need to do is run this commands:

curl -fsSL get.docker.com -o get-docker.sh
sudo sh get-docker.sh

If you run into a permission issue after installation we need to run the following command to resolve issues.

sudo usermod -a -G docker $USER

The change will be applied after logging out and logging back in. {: .notice–warning}

Install Docker Compose

Use python package manager to install docker-compose.

sudo pip install docker-compose

Setting up Docker to start on boot

sudo systemctl enable docker

At this point, I recommend you set up this docker-compose alias for easy access and less typing.