Linux and Windows Images Side by Side

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Looking at the Docker install section, you’d do this in an elevated prompt (all same as in MS doc):

Invoke-WebRequest "https://get.docker.com/builds/Windows/x86_64/docker-1.12.0.zip" -OutFile "$env:TEMP\docker-1.12.0.zip" -UseBasicParsing
Expand-Archive -Path "$env:TEMP\docker-1.12.0.zip" -DestinationPath $env:ProgramFiles
[Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable("Path", $env:Path + ";$env:ProgramFiles\docker\", [EnvironmentVariableTarget]::Machine)

The next line is slightly different:

& $env:ProgramFiles\docker\dockerd.exe  -H npipe:////./pipe/win_engine --register-service

Or if you want to use the engine from a non-elevated prompt, you can register it like this:

& $env:ProgramFiles\docker\dockerd.exe  -H npipe:////./pipe/win_engine -G <your-windows-username> --register-service

And then (same as doc):

Start-Service Docker

From then on, to use the Docker engine, you can either use -H with every Docker command:

> docker -H npipe:////./pipe/win_engine version
Client:
 Version:      1.12.1-rc1
 API version:  1.24
 Go version:   go1.6.3
 Git commit:   7889dc7
 Built:        Fri Aug 12 18:35:53 2016
 OS/Arch:      windows/amd64
 Experimental: true

Server:
 Version:      1.13.0-dev
 API version:  1.25
 Go version:   go1.6.3
 Git commit:   402cf23
 Built:        Thu Aug  4 08:44:34 2016
 OS/Arch:      windows/amd64

Or if you don’t want to do that, set the DOCKER_HOST environment variable:

> $Env:DOCKER_HOST = "npipe:////./pipe/win_engine"
> docker version
Client:
 Version:      1.12.1-rc1
 API version:  1.24
 Go version:   go1.6.3
 Git commit:   7889dc7
 Built:        Fri Aug 12 18:35:53 2016
 OS/Arch:      windows/amd64
 Experimental: true

Server:
 Version:      1.13.0-dev
 API version:  1.25
 Go version:   go1.6.3
 Git commit:   402cf23
 Built:        Thu Aug  4 08:44:34 2016
 OS/Arch:      windows/amd64
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