In this section we're going to walk through the setup and installation of Docker on a Windows based
machine.
We're going to first get started by opening up our browser and navigating to Docker icon.
Once you're here you're going to find the Get Started button on the top right hand side.
We'll click it and then we can scroll down a little bit and find a link that'll take us to Docker for
Windows.
Then once we're over here you'll notice that the blue download button on the top right hand side requires
you to actually log in with a doctor account before you can actually download the software.
Now I know that is a pain to have to sign up for something before you can download any software.
But in this case it's kind of doing us a favor because we definitely are going to ultimately need a
docker account to do a lot of the things that we want to do inside this course.
So I'm going to click on that log in to download button.
And then if you do not have an account already with Docker you can click on the Create Account button
down here as a quick note when you first create your Docker account you're going to be prompted for
a docker I.D..
This is like a user name of sorts.
And so could be any user name type word that you wanted to beat.
I do have to ask you to make sure that you keep your Docker I.D. around and do not forget it is we're
going to make use of it pretty soon.
All right.
So once you create your account you can go ahead and sign in and then we'll click on the blue get Docker
link right here and that's going to download the executable file with Docker.
Now I've gone ahead and already download this thing just to save us a little bit of time.
So once you download that executable and start it up you're going to see a window like this.
Now we want to make sure that we are not using Windows based containers.
We want to use Linux containers so we're not going to check the box right here.
After that I'll hit.
OK.
It's going to go through a little bit of setup.
This is going to take a minute or two so I'm going to let it sit.
We'll take a quick pause and we'll come back together in the next section.