Thanks for the welcome!
I am running it on an oracle cloud instance if that matters under ubuntu.
I followed up to this part of the install guide:
docker pull farmos/farmos:2.x.y
docker run --rm -p 80:80 -v "${PWD}/sites:/opt/drupal/web/sites" farmos/farmos:2.x.y
I also created a mysql db on my host machine, no docker.
My issue is when I am connecting to the db during setup:
It has no access.
This is all user error on my part but i am stumped on how to give the farmos container access to the db i made. I tried some bind-address stuff to get the docker ip in there but did not really understand what i was doing and it did not work.
If there is anyone around who has a make a db and set it up so that the farmos docker can access it for dummies guide it would be helpful 