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Windows Docker Installation

El-ahrairah — Mon, 31 Jul 2017 01:53:47 GMT

Is there a process to install MineMeld on a Windows isntance of Docker (much like the CentOS/RHEL deployments)?

Cheers

Re: Windows Docker Installation

lmori — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 10:35:41 GMT

I am afraid I don't have much experience runnign Docker on Windows, but once Docker is installed the process should be the same as running MineMeld docker image on CentOS. You can run docker compose in Windows too.

Re: Windows Docker Installation

El-ahrairah — Tue, 08 Aug 2017 04:04:12 GMT

Thanks @lmori

As I turns out Docker doesnt function on Windows guests running on ESXi hypervisor due to Hyper-V incompatiblity on such a scenario.

I'll endevour to test it in my free time on a thick client, but insuitable for my current use case.

Re: Windows Docker Installation

lmori — Tue, 08 Aug 2017 17:54:49 GMT

Hi @El-ahrairah,

couldn't you run an Ubuntu VM on ESX ?

luigi

Re: Windows Docker Installation

El-ahrairah — Tue, 08 Aug 2017 23:07:51 GMT

Yes I have run it in Ubuntu and CentOS but for various non-technical reasons I have had it requested to run on Windows. But that has now been ruled out 🙂

Re: Windows Docker Installation

El-ahrairah — Wed, 09 Aug 2017 04:40:23 GMT

Just for fun I installed Docker on a laptop running Windows Server 2016 and was able to build MineMeld with run command. Seems to work fine.

docker run -it -p 8443:443 jtschichold/minemeld

As mentioned prior... AFAIK Docker wont run on a Windows VM since it relies on Hyper-V Hypervisor, which generally doesnt wort when running on other hypervisors (ESX etc.). I have only tested on VMWare hypervisors so far and Docker installation fails. Might test on AWS and Azure later, but I dont expect any different results.