Docker Beta on Windows Server 2016 (TP 5)

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Is the beta client not supported on Windows Server 2016 ? I’m getting an error saying it requires Windows 10 Pro, Enterprise or Education. Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/h2r4Mws.png

Note: I’ve already installed docker (Docker version 1.12.0-dev, build 2b97201) using the steps here - https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowscontainers/deployment/docker_windows

Does that have to be uninstalled before running the beta client ?

Steps to reproduce the behavior

  1. Download and try to install Docker for Windows on Windows Server 2016 (Tech Preview 5)
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Installing Docker for Windows on Windows Server 2016 is not currently supported. I’ve created an issue to track this.

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@friism is the issue you created public somewhere? I’d like to be able to track this as well.

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Stay tuned - we’ll update this thread as we make progress.

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Oh ok, thanks. Just for my planning purposes, is this being actively worked on? Are we talking weeks, months, or years?

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@mhodgson it looks like we might pick it up in a couple of weeks. I recommend using Toolbox or just Docker Machine in the interim.

Michael

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@friism Do you have any news regarding the support of Windows Server 2016?

I’m trying to convince our operations-team to use docker for windows in one of our new projects, but they ask for a roadmap… Just to make sure, that docker for windows will support Windows Server 2016 on the day we go live…

Thanks

André

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Do you have more details on your use case? Docker engine running natively on Windows Server 2016 will be supported by Microsoft and Docker at launch. “Docker for Windows” (which install a Linux Docker container dev enviroment on Windows 10) is not meant as a production runtime tool, so I’d love to get more details.

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@friism As far as I know, the Docker support of Windows Server 2016 is restricted to Windows-based Docker containers, right?

I have a Linux-based container that I want to run on the Windows Server 2016.

If I have understood correctly, the use of Docker for Windows is the only way to handle the gap between Linux-based Docker containers and Windows Server, right?

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Yes, with Docker for Windows you can run Linux containers on Windows. For production use, you’re probably better off just running a Linux system though.

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I would love to! :slight_smile: But the Windows Server is set.

Do you have any news about a planned support for Windwos Server 2016?

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I’m also interested in using a Linux-based container on Windows server 2016, Do you have news about this ?

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This is also of interest to me. Being able to host both windows and linux docker containers on a single Windows Server 2016 system would help us reduce the physical servers we need to support. Example: running linux-native nginx in a linux container on windows.

@friism Is the statement that “Docker for Windows” feature is not meant for production because there are performance issues with using a Linux docker container on Windows? Or are there reliability issues with this approach? Or is there some other reason? (maybe Microsoft not allowing it?)

-7

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Is that a true statement? I am running below mentioned Docker version on Windows server 2016.
And as per the documentation “https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-windows/#explore-the-application-and-run-examples” you can run Linux container on windows.

–>> PS C:\Users\jdoe> docker run -it ubuntu bash

When I tried that it through following error:-

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Docker version
Client:
Version: 17.06.1-ee-1
API version: 1.30
Go version: go1.8.3
Git commit: 4dd6e94
Built: Sat Aug 12 01:34:13 2017
OS/Arch: windows/amd64

Server:
Version: 17.06.1-ee-1
API version: 1.30 (minimum version 1.24)
Go version: go1.8.3
Git commit: 4dd6e94
Built: Sat Aug 12 02:14:08 2017
OS/Arch: windows/amd64
Experimental: false

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You have to install Docker for Windows (which is a development tool).

Please see my response here: https://github.com/docker/docker.github.io/issues/4264#issuecomment-324421652