Lion Cipher Lab

Install Docker (Windows, with WSL 2)

• Foundations
• Beginner
• ~30 min
• Free · no account required

Why it matters

Containers are how modern software and most hands-on security labs actually run. Getting Docker working once unlocks a huge amount of practice — vulnerable web apps, whole SOC environments, tools that would be a nightmare to install by hand. It is also the exact engine Lion Cipher's future in-browser labs run on, so this is the doorway to everything hands-on.

What you'll learn

• Docker basics
• containers
• WSL 2
• setting up a lab environment

Steps in this lab

1. What Docker is, in one breath
2. Check you're ready (30 seconds)
3. Turn on WSL 2 — the engine Docker uses
4. Install Docker Desktop
5. Start it and prove it works
6. What you just did — and why it matters

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