A few days, Ago I told you about the release of Docker For Windows 18.02 and today I’ll show how easy it is to run Linux Containers on Windows with 18.02
Requirements
Running LCOW on Windows comes with a few requirements that we must make sure are met, and they are listed below:
Docker For Windows Edge Chanel with 18.02.0-CE-WIN52
Windows 10 1709 (1703 will not work)
4GB Of RAM on the machine
2 CPU
Below you can see my Docker version
Download Linux Image
At this stage of the release, we need to use –platform Linux switch to tell docker we want to download a Linux Image.
Note: the above switch is only used to download Linux images but not run the Linux containers.
To Download the Linux alpine Container Image, I’ll use the code below:
docker pull --platform linux alpine
Using the command below, I’ll spin a Linux container and run the top command
docker run -it --rm alpine
And below you can see the Linux Image on my machine.
Windows Containers
Next, I’ll pull the Windows Nano Server 1709 Image using the line below
docker pull microsoft/nanoserver:1709
Next, I’ll start my Windows Container
docker run -it --rm microsoft/nanoserver:1709
And now, I have Windows and Linux Containers running side by side.
Conclusion
Running LCOW on Windows 10 becomes easier and seamless from every release and it looks like we will see GA In the next few months.