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Akshay barahate
Akshay barahate

Reputation: 785

Docker-for-selenium on Windows

Currently selenium HQ/docker-for-selenium is available for Linux os.

Here they are trying to implement selenium grid using docker, on Linux.

My main aim is achieving the same in windows. I am unaware what challenges I will face here.

So creating this thread to discuss the challenge while implementation.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 5038

Answers (1)

Akshay barahate
Akshay barahate

Reputation: 785

For windows to support the IE in docker we need to understand two things.

1)Windows do not provide GUI capability inside the docker containers like XVBF in Linux.

2) No headless IE

Feel Free to explore this project in order to understand how they are enabling GUI in Linux containers.

Link to the project: https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/docker-selenium

UPDATES:

Still there is no official approach to run IE/EDGE inside docker as "No Windows docker images have GUI, so we cannot test IE11, EDGE."

But,We can install virtual-box and make this happen.

This approach adds extra layer of virtualization[Nesting of virtualization] on the top of docker to make the IE/Edge execution happen and I think in near future it may leads to to performance issue for heavy testing.

If Selenium testing is what you are looking for and don't have heavy load , you can give a try to the approach mentioned in the link.

Youtube - Selenium Windows containers in Docker under Linux

Github - Windows Images

Blogpost - selenium-on-windows-docker-revolution

Upvotes: 3

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