Image by 3D Animation Production Company from Pixabay
Basic Steps
Create Non-Root User and Adjust Permissions
See Initial Server Setup with Ubuntu 22.04
Setup User
adduser karl
usermod -aG sudo karl
ufw app list
ufw allow OpenSSH
ufw enable
ufw status
Test access
SSH Settings
rsync --archive --chown=karl:karl ~/.ssh /home/karl
Setup Docker and Docker Compose
See Install the Compose plugin
Setup Repository
See Install Docker Engine on Ubuntu
sudo apt install ca-certificates curl gnupg
sudo install -m 0755 -d /etc/apt/keyrings
curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg
sudo chmod a+r /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg
echo \
"deb [arch="$(dpkg --print-architecture)" signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu \
"$(. /etc/os-release && echo "$VERSION_CODENAME")" stable" | \
sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null
sudo apt update
Install Docker Engine
sudo apt-get install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-buildx-plugin docker-compose-plugin
sudo docker run hello-world
Install Plugin
Should already be installed with Docker Engine above.
docker compose version