Linux Containers On Windows 10

Additional quick start documentation can be found in the table of contents on the left hand side of this page.

Linux containers on windows 10.

Starting with wsl2 docker can run in it s full flow in windows and you can use images built for linux. It is now possible to run docker containers on windows 10 and windows server leveraging ubuntu as a hosting base. For the best experience run these commands in an elevated command prompt window but don t use the windows powershell ise it doesn t work for interactive sessions with containers as the containers appear to hang. At dockercon 2016 in seattle docker announced the public beta of docker for windows with this you can work with docker running linux containers in a very easy way on windows 10 pro with hyper v installed.

In the meantime there is a stable version and a beta channel to retrieve newer versions. This quick start is specific to windows 10. The exercise will walk through creating and running linux containers on windows 10. Wsl2 in turn also uses hyper v so without having hyper v enabled docker desktop fails to start and can t be used.

Here s a solution for running both windows and linux containers on windows 10 entirely without hyper v and without docker desktop. It is now possible to do so using the power of docker technology and hyper v virtualization on windows. And microsoft has added the containers feature in the windows 10 anniversary update. For this simple example a hello world container image will be created and deployed.

Imagine running your own linux applications on windows using a linux distribution you are comfortable with. For testing you can download a copy of windows server 2019 evaluation or a windows server insider preview. The deploy iotedge command checks that your windows machine is on a supported version turns on the containers feature and then downloads the moby runtime which is not used for linux containers and the iot edge runtime. Invoke webrequest useb aka ms iotedge win invoke expression.

Run a windows container. 2 minutes to read 4. Running a simple linux container. The command defaults to windows containers so declare linux as the desired container operating system.

One physical computer system running windows 10 professional or enterprise with anniversary update version 1607 or later. Hyper v should be enabled. In this quick start you will accomplish. To run containers on windows 10 you need the following.

Docker has been developing a new version of its docker desktop tools for windows around wsl2 making it as easy to develop and test linux containers on windows 10 as it is to work with windows. Windows subsystem for linux wsl 2 introduces a significant architectural change as it is a full linux kernel built by microsoft allowing linux containers to run natively without emulation.