For the latest instructions you should always refer to the official documentation.

Docker runs natively on Linux, so depending on the target distribution it could be as easy as sudo apt-get install docker.io. Refer to the documentation for details. Normally in Linux, you prepend the Docker commands with sudo, but we will skip it in this article for clarity.

As the Docker daemon uses Linux-specific kernel features, it isn’t possible to run Docker natively in Mac OS or Windows. Instead, you should install an application called Boot2Docker. The application consists of a VirtualBox Virtual Machine, Docker itself, and the Boot2Docker management utilities. You can follow the official installation instructions for MacOS and Windows to install Docker on these platforms.

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