Run Docker On Windows Server

Docker Enterprise allows you to run both Windows Server and Linux nodes in the same cluster, allowing organizations to secure and manage a diverse set of containerized applications. This includes hybrid applications that leverage both Linux-based and Windows-based components (e.g. MS SQL database with a Java front-end). The result is that Docker created a container from the 'HelloWorld' image, Docker started an instance of cmd.exe in the container, and the cmd.exe read our file and output the contents to the shell. As the final step, Docker stopped and removed the container. Run a Windows container using Windows Admin Center. The official Windows IoT Core base image for containers. Docker run microsoft/dotnet-samples:dotnetapp-nanoserver-1809. The container will start, print the hello world message, and then exits. Running Linux Containers on Windows Server 2019. Out of the box, Docker on Windows only run Windows container. As to the question where you can access this data from windows. As far as I know, docker for windows uses the bash subsystem in Windows 10. I would try to run bash for windows10 and go to that folder or find out how to access the linux folders from windows 10. Check this page for a FAQ on the linux subsystem in windows 10.

Docker and Microsoft Bring Containers to Windows Apps

Docker and Microsoft have a joint engineering relationship to deliver a consistent Docker experience for developers and operators. All Windows Server 2016 and later versions come with Docker Engine - Enterprise. Additionally, developers can leverage Docker natively with Windows 10 via Docker Desktop. Docker Windows containers work the same way as it does on Linux: same Docker CLI, API, image format and content distribution services. Additional benefits:

Provide a consistent Docker user experience: use the same commands and UI in Windows as on Linux environments
Eliminate conflicts: Different versions of IIS/.NET can coexist on a single system with container isolation
Complementary with Hyper-V virtualization with added isolation properties when Hyper V containers are selected at runtime
Smaller base images: Take advantage of new smaller base images like Windows Server Core and Nano Server in Windows Server 1709, 1803 and Windows Server 2019

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This topic describes how to run your first Windows container, after setting up your environment as described in Get started: Prep Windows for containers. To run a container, you first install a base image, which provides a foundational layer of operating system services to your container. Then you create and run a container image, which is based upon the base image. For details, read on.

Install a container base image

All containers are created from container images. Microsoft offers several starter images, called base images, to choose from (for more details, see Container base images). This procedures pulls (downloads and installs) the lightweight Nano Server base image.

Open a command prompt window (such as the built-in command prompt, PowerShell, or Windows Terminal), and then run the following command to download and install the base image:
Tip
If you see an error message that says no matching manifest for unknown in the manifest list entries, make sure Docker isn't configured to run Linux containers.
After the image is finished downloading—read the EULA while you wait—verify its existence on your system by querying your local docker image repository. Running the command docker images returns a list of installed images.
Here's an example of the output showing the Nano Server image.

Run a Windows container

For this simple example, a ‘Hello World’ container image will be created and deployed. 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).

Start a container with an interactive session from the nanoserver image by entering the following command in your command prompt window:
After the container is started, the command prompt window changes context to the container. Inside the container, we'll create a simple ‘Hello World’ text file and then exit the container by entering the following commands:
Get the container ID for the container you just exited by running the docker ps command:
Create a new ‘HelloWorld’ image that includes the changes in the first container you ran. To do so, run the docker commit command, replacing <containerid> with the ID of your container:
When completed, you now have a custom image that contains the hello world script. This can be seen with the docker images command.
Here's an example of the output:
Finally, run the new container by using the docker run command with the --rm parameter that automatically removes the container once the command line (cmd.exe) stops.
The result is that Docker created a container from the 'HelloWorld' image, Docker started an instance of cmd.exe in the container, and the cmd.exe read our file and output the contents to the shell. As the final step, Docker stopped and removed the container.

Run a Windows container using Windows Admin Center

Windows Admin Center can be used to run your containers locally. Specifically, you use the the Containers extension of your Windows Admin Center instance to run the containers. First, open the container host you want to manage, and in the Tools pane, select the Containers extension. Then, select the Images tab inside the Container extension under Container Host.

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If your host doesn't have a base container image, select the Pull option which opens the following:

In the Pull Container Image settings, provide the image URL and the tag. If you aren't certain which image to pull, Windows Admin Center provides a list of common images from Microsoft. You can also provide the credentials to pull an image from a private repository. Once you fill out the necessary information, click Pull. Windows Admin Center will start the pull process on the container host. After the download is complete, you should see the new image on the Images tab.

Select the image you want to run, and click Run.

On the Run menu, set up the configuration for the container, such as the container name, the isolation type, which ports to publish, and memory and CPU allocation. Additionally, you can append Docker run commands that are not in the UI, such as -v for persistent volume. For more information on available Docker run parameters, review the documentation.

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Once you have finished the configuration for the container, click Run. You can see the status of the running containers on the Containers tab: