devops-learner: Docker installation setup for Windows

Step 1: Create a Docker account Sign Up to create Docker Account

Step 2: Download Docker for Windows 10 using below link Docker exe for Windows

Note: Required Login

Step 3: Login with your "Username" and "Password"

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Note: 1. The system will reboot automatically once you click on [Ok]

2. Virtual Box will no longer work if Hyper-V enabled on your Machine

Step 9.1 You will get a shortcut on your Desktop of Docker. Click on that to run it.

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Step 13: Docker Settings

There are nine options given in the Settings section of the Docker, however, we will go through only the important ones only.

Shared Drives:

To access the local Windows 10 drives from containers, go to the Shared Drives and select the drive’s letter which you want to share and make them available for different containers installed using the Docker.

Advanced:

As we know the Docker’s installed containers also run on the Virtualization platform of Windows 10 which is Hyper-V, hence, we can control the amount system resources available for the Docker engine which further assigned by it to the containers. We can manage CPU, RAM, SWAP memory, Disk image location (don’t change it until & unless you know what you are doing) and Hard Disk image size.

Network

To let the Containers to communicate with each other the Docker will automatically create an internal Virtual Switch with a default range of IP i.e 10.0.75.0. If needed, you can change it to some other range.

Step 14: Switch Linux Containers to Windows containers or vice versa

In case you want to Switch the default Linux containers to Windows container then again go to taskbar click on Show hidden icon-> right click on the Docker icon-> Select the option “Switch to Windows containers“.