Will be trying my most used software installs using brew, it seems a great way to be downloading/installing software in bulk – should be great for new laptop setup (if/when I get it) – I have been upgrading macOS in-place for the past 5 years or so, and think it will be awesome to someday migrate to a brand new clean macOS setup. Upon starting this /Applications/Docker.app for the first time, I got the security prompt:īut that’s it – after that Docker worked exactly the same and had the very same versions of all the components: dmg files and moving the applications you may use Homebrew Cask to install these applications. Using Homebrew you can directly download and install many open source software and unix tools.

To install the Homebrew package, you use a command brew install .

Then to remove it, run the below command. api/cask/docker.json (JSON API) Cask code on GitHub. Homebrew is a package manager for MAC OS X. Install cask (with Homebrew 0.9.5 or higher, cask is included so skip this step): brew tap caskroom/cask brew tap caskroom/versions Optional: if you want to use Docker Compose later.

Homebrew is a package manager for Mac and if you havent installed it yet. Test it out by using Homebrew to install Visual Studio Code. Homebrew will update its list of packages and then download and install the. This feature is included with Homebrew, so there’s nothing additional to install. App to build and share containerized applications and microservices. Homebrew Cask lets you install desktop applications. That was it! Overall – great improvement of the steps I would normally take to install Docker. Names: Docker Desktop, Docker Community Edition, Docker CE.

=> Moving App 'Docker.app' to '/Applications/Docker.app'. => Verifying SHA-256 checksum for Cask 'docker'. The easiest is, of course, just to use the native installer provided by Docker maintaners: you download the Docker.dmg file, install it and end up with an app called Docker Desktop: Install Docker with brewīut since I wanted to try more automated install, I used brew: :~ $ brew cask install dockerĪlready downloaded: /Users/greys/Library/Caches/Homebrew/downloads/01aa470f5479ce702d59bc8d825681bca704ab964279558efd5a2187b126791c-Docker.dmg Among them is Docker, so I decided to try how it installs and works. Turns out, plenty of native macOS apps can be installed using the brew package manager.

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