Hey there. I’m new to Docker. I’m running a Win2016 container on a Win2016 host, which I launched as follows: docker run -d --name goober --hostname goober modified-iis My question is: Is there a way to enter a remote powershell session to manage the container? I’ve tried: Enter-PSSession -Compu…

Thanks. I ran across the ‘exec’ command too and it works. I’m wondering though why the Enter-PSSession command always results in failure. The reason I’m interested specifically in the Enter-PSSession approach is that at some point I’m going to want to initiate a Powershell session with a container f…

I haven’t checked, but I don’t think all the WinRM stuff is running inside the container (and neither is RDP). Further, I don’t know that you’d be able to correctly authenticate with WinRM inside of a container if you got it going. Remember that a container is not like a full operating system or vi…

Thanks. This is great info! For what it’s worth, when I tried to enable remote management at the container level I was notified that WinRM is already running. So it’s on there but I’ll follow your advice of just RDP’ing to the host and running docker exec from there to access the container. A bit …

[image] codefanatic: It’s therefore conceivable that by running Windows Update on the host, I could break the functionality of my container-based apps that live on that host? The semantics are a little bit different between containers running in Windows Server and Hyper-V isolation mode: Wind…

This is how to do it Enter-PSSession -ContainerId (get-container -Name goober).ID -RunAsAdministrator

[image] artisticcheese: Enter-PSSession -ContainerId (get-container -Name goober).ID -RunAsAdministrator Hi Artistic Cheese, Running that command on my Docker host yields the following error message: get-container : The term ‘get-container’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, functio…

Yes. You need to install “docker” module from Microsoft. It’s using Docker REST API for all those calls which you normally do via docker.exe command. (Hate going back to MSDOS essentially what Microsoft pushing currently with this obsession with all examples reling on rememebering this switches etc)…

Thanks, I’ll check that out. You hit on something that’s really been bugging me – this new obsession with obtuse command line instructions. I know Linux users have always preferred this type of interface (never understood why) but I’m kind of surprised to see Microsoft become so enamored with it. I…

yes. This love for Linux coming from Microsoft in last year really pissing me off. It’s ok if they love it but on the way of too much love they turn away Windows admins they relied on and cherished all this years. They gave us powershell 10 years ago with a lot of celebration and effort invested int…

Using Powershell on Host to Connect to Container

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friism (Michael Friis) December 10, 2016, 4:29am 2

docker exec -ti goober powershell

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Using Powershell on Host to Connect to Container

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