This can be install from Microsoft Store.

This can be installed alongside Tortoise GIT.

You can follow these steps: https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/ubuntu/

# Add Docker's official GPG key:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ca-certificates curl
sudo install -m 0755 -d /etc/apt/keyrings
sudo curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg -o /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc
sudo chmod a+r /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc

# Add the repository to Apt sources:
echo \
  "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc] 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-get update

https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/linux-postinstall/

sudo groupadd docker
sudo usermod -aG docker $USER
newgrp docker
docker run hello-world
sudo systemctl enable docker.service
sudo systemctl enable containerd.service

You can follow these steps: https://docs.docker.com/config/daemon/remote-access/

sudo mkdir /etc/systemd/system/docker.service.d

sudo vi /etc/systemd/system/docker.service.d/override.conf 

Add the below to the override.conf file:

[Service]
ExecStart=
ExecStart=/usr/bin/dockerd -H fd:// -H tcp://127.0.0.1:2375

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl restart docker.service
sudo systemctl status docker.service

In git bash:

vi ~/.testcontainers.properties

Add the following lines:
docker.client.strategy=org.testcontainers.dockerclient.EnvironmentAndSystemPropertyClientProviderStrategy
docker.host=tcp\://127.0.0.1\:2375

There are 2 options here.

The client downloaded form docker.com will connect to the server from WSL2 (using DOCKER_HOST variable).

https://download.docker.com/win/static/stable/x86_64/

First, extract the latest version and put the installation path in the windows PATH env variable.

Second, add env variable

DOCKER_HOST = tcp://localhost:2375

Now, test containers should work and also the docker client.

The client downloaded form choco will connect to the local server (from docker engine component).

choco install docker-cli
choco install docker-compose
choco install docker-engine
choco install kubernetes-cli

So, when DOCKER_HOST is not present the docker client will connect to the local docker engine:

Otherwise it will connect to WSL2 (by setting

DOCKER_HOST = tcp://localhost:2375

)

wsl -d ubuntu