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Running Windows in a container

Running Windows in a container - Docker Tutorial

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Running Windows in a container

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- [David] So you may be wondering, can you run Windows in a Windows container, on top of Windows with Docker? And the answer to that question is yes you can and you can do it in a couple of different ways. In fact we can even run Windows Server Core or Windows Server Nano on top of Windows 10 in a Docker Container. So here we are in the Docker Hub again and if we scroll down, you'll find microsoft/windowsservercore. If I click on that, let's go up to the top here it tells us what this is, this is Windows Server 2016. The latest build and it's available to us in a container, we can download it and run it inside of Docker for Windows on Windows 10 and you can get the exact Docker Pull Command right up here, in fact you can click on the icon to copy that and if we go over the command prompt. Before we paste that command in, I'm actually going to do a Docker image ls, so this lists out images that have already been downloaded and I'll let you in on a little secret here. I actually already…

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