VPS Guide: Your Go-To for VPS, Ubuntu & Command Line Success

Install Docker on Ubuntu VPS

Category: VPS Setup

Deploy Docker—a container platform—on an Ubuntu VPS for app isolation—install with

apt update && apt install docker.io -y

start with

systemctl start docker

and enable via

systemctl enable docker

Test with

docker run hello-world

—expect \"Hello from Docker!\" Open ports with

ufw allow 2375

for remote access On DigitalOcean run MySQL in a container:

docker run -d -p 3306:3306 mysql

Verify with

docker ps

—ensures uptime for phpMyAdmin integration Pair with Fail2ban for security—Docker simplifies VPS hosting cutting resource waste (~10MB per container)