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TheEdge
TheEdge

Reputation: 9851

Running .Net Core in Docker in Windows Subsystem for Linux

Practically I want to play with .NET Core within Docker.

So as I understand it from this post to give myself the best flexibility I would install "Docker For Windows". Means I can ultimately deploy my .Core app to a container that is either a Windows or a Linux container. However the Linux container is still a Hyper-V managed Linux container.

1) Is there a way to instead use the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) to do this in the Windows 10 Creators Update? Seems like less overhead than have Windows/Docker manage a separate Linux VM for me?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 782

Answers (1)

svick
svick

Reputation: 244757

No, running Docker containers in WSL is not supported (link mine):

The docker engine is not a supported scenario in the short term. I would suggest hitting our User Voice page and upvoting Docker if you're looking to run the docker engine.

The docker client however should be running in build 14342. I have been able to run the docker client and connect to a docker engine running in a VM.

As to why it's not supported:

WSL is a clean-room kernel reimplementation. So it can't, for both technical and legal reasons, simply take the kernel components of Docker and "make it work". They would need to reverse-engineer years of ongoing kernel development and reimplement it. (Or take some other nontrivial approach.)

Upvotes: 1

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