Sign up for Docker Hub
Download Docker Desktop for Windows
Install Docker Desktop for Windows
- Run Docker Desktop Installer.exe
- Accept defaults shown below


Verify the Docker installation
- Double-click the Docker Desktop icon on your desktop
- Sign into Docker Hub when prompted
- Open a PowerShell prompt
- docker version
- docker info
- docker images (should return nothing)
- docker run hello-world (should return “Hello from Docker!“)
- docker images (should now show the hello-world image was pulled/containerized/and output streamed to the console)
- docker ps (list containers)

Enable a Shared Drive
- Settings\Shared Drives (you must tell docker where to store container files)

Suggestions
- Settings\General (to disable default settings as shown below)

More Info
- Reference documentation: https://docs.docker.com/reference/