# Containerizing .exe App

**URL:** <https://forums.docker.com/t/containerizing-exe-app/140854>\
**Category:** General\
**Tags:** docker\
**Created:** [April 15, 2024, 12:57pm UTC](https://forums.docker.com/t/containerizing-exe-app/140854 "2024-04-15T12:57:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![saket592](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/977dab/32.png) [@saket592](https://forums.docker.com/u/saket592)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2024, 12:57pm UTC](https://forums.docker.com/t/containerizing-exe-app/140854/1 "2024-04-15T12:57:25Z")

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Hello people,

I have a headless application that I want to deploy on an edge device within a Kubernetes cluster. My idea was to containerize the application and deploy via a docker container. My application is a .exe file. My first idea was to pull a windows image as a base image and build an image around it that has my application in it, however I did not succeed. Is there any other possibility that you suggest?

Kind regards

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**Author:** ![bluepuma77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/docker/user_avatar/forums.docker.com/bluepuma77/32/32688_2.png) [@bluepuma77](https://forums.docker.com/u/bluepuma77)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2024, 1:13pm UTC](https://forums.docker.com/t/containerizing-exe-app/140854/2 "2024-04-15T13:13:12Z")

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What’s your target? A Linux device or a Windows machine?

Note that a container is not a VM, so you can’t simply run a windows .exe on Linux.

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**Author:** ![saket592](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/977dab/32.png) [@saket592](https://forums.docker.com/u/saket592)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2024, 1:34pm UTC](https://forums.docker.com/t/containerizing-exe-app/140854/3 "2024-04-15T13:34:13Z")

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I am running a linux virtual machine. I use Ubuntu 22.04 and a x86\_64 processor.  
I tried to pull the Windows IoT Core base image (`docker pull mcr.microsoft.com/windows/iotcore:1809`) which has a tag for linux and for x86\_64. However I get the error message: no matchin manifest for linux/amd64 in the manifest list entries.