Installing Git and Docker

Git and Docker are the two essential tools that we will be using to manage our code and our builds apart from our local machine. In this section, we will install them both and explore how they are helping us.

We will look at the following topics:

• Installing Git
• Installing Docker
• Using Docker with microservices
• Using Git and Docker

Let's get started!

Installing Git

Luckily, Git is in all likelihood already installed if you are using macOS. You can simply verify this by writing the following command in the terminal:

$ git --version

The result should look like this:

$ git --version
git version 2.21.0 (Apple Git-120)

If it does not look like this, you may have to install Git, which the preceding...