This article contains a list of steps and notes on installing Raspbian Lite on an SD card. I often document some tasks for future reference and I’ve just got five more Raspberry Pi’s for my new project, which means that installing Raspbian Lite might be a thing I’ll probably need to repeat from time to time.
Docker and Docker Compose are convenient tools if you need to run some software without bloating your system with dependencies that you don’t use on a daily basis so Docker was one of the first things I wanted to install on my new Raspberry Pi 4. A few Duck Duck Go searches revealed that Docker seems to support armhf but it’s impossible to install it on Raspbian in the same way as it’s usually done on other Linux distributions.
I wanted to get my hands on a Raspberry Pi 4 board since its release at the beginning of July but I had to wait a bit longer because an official Asian reseller had been out of stock up until recently. I ordered Raspberry Pi 4 Desktop Kit as soon as it had become available and it arrived on my doorstep a few days ago.
