Installing windows docker on windows 10

In this blog, we will show you installing windows docker on windows 10 operating system.

 

REQUIREMENTS

 

• Need a Windows 10 VM (or) Physical Machine

 

Note: In this demonstration, we are using windows 10 VM in HYPER-V and need to enable virtualization to install docker service in windows 10 machine

 

ENABLING VIRTUALIZATION

• Go-to PowerShell window and execute the below command to enable the virtualization for VM processor.

Set-VMProcessor -VMName win10 -ExposeVirtualizationExtensions $true

 

• Open HYPER-V MMC, and right click on win10 VM and click settings.

 

• Disable the Dynamic memory option.

 

• Enable MAC address spoofing for win10 VM.

 

• Now, we have enabled the virtualization for this VM.

 

WINDOWS UPDATES

• Make sure that windows 10 VM is up to date.

 

INSTALLING HYPER-V ROLE

• Right click on windows icon and click Run.

 

• Type appwiz.cpl command to open the program and features window.

 

 

• Click on Turn windows features on or off to install features. Select the Hyper-V role checkbox and click OK.

 

• It will take few minutes to complete the installation. Once its complete reboot the VM to complete it.

 

INSTALLING WINDOWS CONTAINERS

• Right click on windows icon and click Run.

 

• Type appwiz.cpl command to open the program and features window.

 

 

• Click on Turn windows features on or off to install features. Select the Containers role checkbox and click OK.

 

• It will take few minutes to complete the installation.

 

• Click OK to close the installation window.

 

INSTALLING DOCKER

• Download the docker installation file from the below URL.

https://download.docker.com/win/stable/InstallDocker.msi

 

• Double click the installer and it will show up the Agreement screen. Accept it and click install.

 

• The installation will take several minutes to complete.

 

• Once it’s completed, select Launch Docker checkbox and click finish.

 

• You can find the docker icon in starting mode at the tray section. It will take few minutes to start the docker service.

 

• It shows the below message once docker service started successfully.

 

 

VERIFYING DOCKER

• Right click on docker icon from the tray section and click on switch to windows container option.  By default, docker will in Linux container mode.

 

• It will take few minutes to complete the switching process.

 

• Once it’s complete, open PowerShell window and executes docker version command to find the version of docker service.

 

• Pull a nano container image using below command.

docker pull assistanz247/nanoserver-iis:latest

 

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