https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/install-docker-in-wsl-2-without-docker-desktop

Prerequisites

Uninstall Docker Desktop.

Delete leftover directories in Linux rm -r ~/.docker and in in Windows delete c:\users{your_user_name}.docker

Enable systemd if it is not already enabled. Execute sudo nano /etc/wsl.conf

add [boot] systemd=true

to the file.

Install docker and docker compose

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

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