How do I start a Windows-Docker-Container on my Mac OS X. I’m unsure starting Windows-Docker-Container on other base systems than Windows. Could not find any docs related to this topic.
My current understanding:
boot2docker hosts Linux-Docker-Container on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X systems e.g. by using virtualbox
Windows Server 2016 TP 5 provides some docker tools as a feature package to be installed through the powershell. For this reason a Windows-Docker-Container cannot start on other systems than Windows Server 2016 at this time
Thanks for your helpful post. I have 3 follow-up questions.
A) The link in the last line is no longer functional. Does the resource still exist please?
B) Can your process be extended to run Visual Studio inside a windows docker container on a macOS? If so, is it installing docker inside of the windows VM and Visual studio inside of container? Am totally new to Docker.
C) This is using a Windows preview so it is that you have only 180 days and then your installation becomes inactive and you have to delete it from the VM?
I use https://github.com/StefanScherer/windows-docker-machine to easily spin up a headless VM on my Mac and switch the Docker API from Docker4Mac and this VM with the docker-machine command.
So you can work from your Mac and create Windows Docker images and run Windows containers in a very convenient way.