Install Lazydocker on Ubuntu 22.04

Lazydocker is a terminal based UI tool that allows to manage containers, images and volumes for Docker and Docker Compose. Lazydocker is an open-source project written in the Go programming language.

This tutorial shows how to install Lazydocker on Ubuntu 22.04.

Prepare environment

Before starting, make sure you have installed Docker. You can read post how to install it.

Install Lazydocker

Get the latest version tag of Lazydocker release from GitHub. Assign version tag to variable.

LAZYDOCKER_VERSION=$(curl -s "https://api.github.com/repos/jesseduffield/lazydocker/releases/latest" | grep -Po '"tag_name": "v\K[0-9.]+')

Download archive from releases page of the Lazydocker repository.

curl -Lo lazydocker.tar.gz "https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazydocker/releases/latest/download/lazydocker_${LAZYDOCKER_VERSION}_Linux_x86_64.tar.gz"

Unzip archive:

mkdir lazydocker-temp

tar xf lazydocker.tar.gz -C lazydocker-temp

Move binary file to /usr/local/bin directory:

sudo mv lazydocker-temp/lazydocker /usr/local/bin

Now lazydocker can be used as a system-wide command for all users.

We can check Lazydocker version:

lazydocker --version

Archive and temporary directory is no longer necessary, remove them:

rm -rf lazydocker.tar.gz lazydocker-temp

Testing Lazydocker

Run hello-world image inside a container:

docker run hello-world

Start Lazydocker:

lazydocker

You will see all of your images, containers, and volumes.

Press CTRL+C, to exit Lazydocker.

Uninstall Lazydocker

If you decided to completely remove Lazydocker, delete the binary file:

sudo rm -rf /usr/local/bin/lazydocker

You can also remove Lazydocker config directory:

rm -rf ~/.config/lazydocker