How to install Docker and Docker Compose on Arch Linux

docker-arch.md

If you do not have yay installed, then follow these steps to install it first

Update

yay

Install

yay -S docker docker-compose

Start the service

sudo systemctl start docker.service

If the above command throws an error, then do the following

sudo systemctl enable docker.service
reboot

Liunx post-install step (to run docker without root or sudo one might say)

sudo groupadd docker
sudo usermod -aG docker $USER
newgrp docker