Linux Containers On Windows Docker

It s ready for windows containers.

Linux containers on windows docker.

This involves setting an environment variable and creating a docker daemon configuration file. In this model docker client runs on windows desktop but calls into docker daemon on the linux vm. Running docker linux containers on windows requires a minimal linux kernel and userland to host the container processes. Have consistent storage and networking properties with linux containers running on linux since they are running on a linux vm.

But we want to run linux containers now that we have docker installed we need to make some changes to the default configuration to enable support for linux containers. In this model all linux containers share a single linux based container host and all linux containers. Creating secure lean and portable linux subsystems that can provide linux container functionality as a component of a container platform. This is exactly what the linuxkit toolkit was designed for.

This article walks you through enabling linux containers on windows lcow as of this writing lcow is an experimental feature and is not directly supported by docker or microsoft experimental features are not supported by the docker support sla and should never be used in production scenarios. When using docker for windows also known as docker desktop a virtual machine running the docker daemon is installed using the windows hyper v virtualisation framework. 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. Share a kernel with each other and the moby vm but not with the windows host.