Install and setup docker on WSL2

setup.sh

# Install ubuntu into WSL2
# https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/ubuntu-2004-lts/9n6svws3rx71?activetab=pivot:overviewtab

# Run VM and go through next steps

# Install Docker

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade -y

sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl gnupg lsb-release -y

curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/docker-archive-keyring.gpg

echo \
  "deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/docker-archive-keyring.gpg] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu \
  $(lsb_release -cs) stable" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null
  
sudo apt update  

sudo apt-get install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io -y

sudo service docker start

sudo groupadd docker

sudo usermod -aG docker $USER

newgrp docker

# Check that docker works
docker run hello-world


# Install Docker Compose
sudo apt install docker-compose -y

# Create Docker configuration file
sudo nano /etc/docker/daemon.json

# with content
{"hosts": ["tcp://0.0.0.0:2375", "unix:///var/run/docker.sock"]}

# Save file(Ctrl + S - save, Ctrl-x - exit)
# and restart Docker
sudo service docker restart

# Create environment variable

# In a project set environment variable before calling some docker API
System.Environment.SetEnvironmentVariable("DOCKER_HOST", @"http://localhost:2375");

# or in the system environment variabes

### windows - open terminal (CMD) as Administartor
setx DOCKER_HOST "http://localhost:2375" /M

GUI

A simple terminal UI for both docker and docker-compose:
https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazydocker

Installation (Ubuntu):

sudo su
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jesseduffield/lazydocker/master/scripts/install_update_linux.sh | bash