Install Docker in WSL 2 (ubuntu)

Install Docker, you can ignore the warning from Docker about using WSL

curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com -o get-docker.sh
sudo sh get-docker.sh

Add your user to the Docker group

sudo usermod -aG docker $USER
sudo newgrp docker

Install Docker Compose v2

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install docker-compose-plugin

Sanity check that both tools were installed successfully

docker --version
docker compose version

Using Ubuntu 22.04 or Debian 10 / 11? You need to do 1 extra step for iptables

compatibility, you'll want to choose option (1) from the prompt to use iptables-legacy.

sudo update-alternatives --config iptables