Login to your Ubuntu server with root user using your favorite SSH client
Let’s first update the operating system with all the latest packages with the command
sudo apt-get update
In order to install Docker , we will first need to install the Docker Package with the command
apt-get -y install docker.io
Configure the proper path and links in order to make sure that docker will work with the commands
ln -sf /usr/bin/docker.io /usr/local/bin/docker
sed -i '$acomplete -F _docker docker' /etc/bash_completion.d/docker
Enable the Docker to start with the server boot with the command
update-rc.d docker.io defaults
Download the docker container with the commands
docker pull Ubuntu
docker run -i -t ubuntu /bin/bash