Installing Docker on Mac

Umesh Yadav
Sep 9, 2018 · 1 min read

Docker one the most talked thing in tech industry and everyone wants to know about this. Docker is containerization tool. Let’s see how can you install the docker for mac and get started with as soon as possible.

Installing Docker For Mac

To install Docker on mac it’s very easy you just need to have brew. Let’s see how can you install brew on mac.

$ /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

Now to install docker on mac, you need to do is just run the following command. This is a stable version of docker for mac.

$ brew cask install docker

If you want to install early access version of docker for mac i.e edge

$ brew cask install docker-edge

To verify everything is properly installed just run following commands

$ open -a docker
$ docker --version
Docker version 18.06.1-ce, build e68fc7a

This is it for now. Please follow me for more blogs on docker and cloud native stuffs.

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