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Note: I\u2019m going through draft posts that go back to 2014 and publishing where they still may have value. They may not be 100% upto date but better published late than never.<\/em><\/p>\n

Up until recently I’ve been solely using Docker on Linux, but I’ve a need to use it with Windows now. I’ve installed Docker Desktop and set to Switch to Windows containers<\/em>.<\/p>\n

So first off we’re going to download a Windows image, whilst there are several variants, for server, nano windows, we’re going to go pretty much full blown using<\/p>\n

\r\ndocker pull mcr.microsoft.com\/windows:2004\r\n<\/pre>\n
Note: It may take some time to download, it’s > 3GB<\/em><\/p>\n
Now just to prove it worked let’s run it in interactive mode and starting the cmd prompt using<\/p>\n
\r\ndocker run -it mcr.microsoft.com\/windows:2004 cmd.exe\r\n<\/pre>\n
Exit your image by typing exit<\/em> followed by return.<\/p>\n
I’m going to want to create a volume to save\/share files with the Windows machine running the container, so let’s create a folder c:\\shared and then copy or create a file in here, just to allow us to prove we can connect to it through the container, so mine’s predictably HelloWorld.txt, now run<\/p>\n
\r\ndocker run -it -v c:\\shared:c:\\shared mcr.microsoft.com\/windows:2004 cmd.exe\r\n<\/pre>\n
Note: Change cmd.exe to powershell.exe if you prefer<\/em><\/p>\n
I’m naming the folder in the image the same as the real machine’s folder, but you can change it to suit, just change the second path like this<\/p>\n
\r\ndocker run -it -v c:\\shared:c:\\shared2 mcr.microsoft.com\/windows:2004 cmd.exe\r\n<\/pre>\n
and if you created a simple text file with a message in it, once we’re inside the container we can type<\/p>\n
\r\ntype HelloWorld.txt\r\n<\/pre>\n
from the c:\\shared folder to see it it’s as expected.<\/p>\n
Now I’m wanting to start to install applications into the container, but with no GUI we need “silent installs”<\/p>\n
\r\nmsiexec \/i .\\myapp.msi \/QN \/L*V install.log\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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