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By Josphat Mutai - November 21, 2023  261339  22

In this tutorial, we will look at how you can con gure your
Windows server 2019 to run Docker containers. Docker has
been a game changer in Applications containerization and the
whole microservices design and deployment patterns. Docker
makes it easy to build, ship and run images containing
applications with their dependencies and avoid crazy

dependency issues common with the use of Virtual Machines.

Docker engine is what powers docker containers. It was

originally written for Linux but a lot of work has been done to
enable Windows and macOS users to run Docker containers.

One pre-requisite is the installation of a Windows server. This

can be on a Virtual Machine running on-premise, a Physical
server deployment or a Cloud instance running in Azure. You
can refer to our installation guide below.

How to Install Windows Server 2019 Step by Step

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Before you can use the Windows Containers to run multiple

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containers feature and install Docker on Windows Server
2019.

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Run the following commands.

WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Containers

Accept by pressing the y key in your keyboard.

Step 2: Install Docker Engine on Windows Server

2019

Once the Containers feature is enabled on Windows Server

2019, install the latest Docker Engine and Client by running
the command below in your PowerShell session.

In this guide we install Docker Community Edition (CE) which

provides a standard runtime environment for containers with
a common API and command-line interface (CLI). Microsoft
Windows Server team created a powershell script that
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Pull a test docker image.

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> docker run -it --rm ubuntu /bin/bash

root@1440a7fef7e0:/# cat /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS"
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION_ID="22.04"
VERSION="22.04.3 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)"
VERSION_CODENAME=jammy
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
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UBUNTU_CODENAME=jammy

root@1440a7fef7e0:/# exit
exit

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[Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable("LCOW_SUPPORTED

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22 COMMENTS

vamsidhar July 29, 2021 At 7:49 am

How is this different from using Docker Desktop for

Windows ?
Reply

Josphat Mutai July 31, 2021 At 12:54 pm

This is a better approach for server edition

Reply

khalyl August 1, 2021 At 7:37 pm

I had to use this link to pull the image

mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/samples:dotnetapp-
nanoserver-1809
Reply

Josphat Mutai August 2, 2021 At 4:54 pm

Thanks for sharing the note, we’ve updated the

text in the article.
Reply

Sjors August 9, 2021 At 5:18 pm

Hi Josphat,

It gives back the error below, but 10.0.17763 is the

latest Windows Server 2019 right?

PS C:\Users\Administrator> docker run

mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/samples:dotnetapp-
nanoserver-2009
Unable to find image
‘mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/samples:dotnetapp-
nanoserver-2009’ locally
dotnetapp-nanoserver-2009: Pulling from
dotnet/samples
docker: a Windows version 10.0.19042-based image
is incompatible with a 10.0.17763 host.
See ‘docker run –help’.
Reply

Sjors August 9, 2021 At 11:19 pm

Thank you for providing the list, I didn’t see it..

Reply

Sjors August 9, 2021 At 11:46 pm

Get-VM WinContainerHost | Set-VMProcessor -

ExposeVirtualizationExtensions $true gives the
respons:

Get-VM : The term ‘Get-VM’ is not recognized as the

name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable
program.
Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was
included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At line:1 char:1
+ Get-VM WinContainerHost | Set-VMProcessor -
ExposeVirtualizationExtens …
+ ~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (Get-VM:String) [],
CommandNotFoundException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

What am I doing wrong?

Reply

m todd August 18, 2021 At 7:46 am

The Hyper-V Module for Windows PowerShell is

not installed.
Reply

Alex November 11, 2021 At 11:09 am

PS C:\Users\Administrator> docker run -it –rm ubuntu /bin/bash

Unable to find image ‘ubuntu:latest’ locally
latest: Pulling from library/ubuntu
7b1a6ab2e44d: Extracting [==================================================>] 28.57MB/28.57MB
C:\Program Files\Docker\docker.exe: failed to register layer: failed to start service utility VM (applydiff
14bdd1b0a2720d4917a811d0cbef7c71ce996a1e0f867197586ccacfe74e6cc3): container
14bdd1b0a2720d4917a811d0cbef7c71ce996a1e0f867197586ccacfe74e6cc3_svm encountered an error during CreateContainer: failure in a Windows system call:
The request is not supported. (0x32) extra info:
{“SystemType”:”container”,”Name”:”14bdd1b0a2720d4917a811d0cbef7c71ce996a1e0f867197586ccacfe74e6cc3_svm”,”Layers”:null,”HvPartition”:true,”HvRuntime”
{“ImagePath”:”C:\\Program Files\\Linux
Containers”,”LinuxInitrdFile”:”initrd.img”,”LinuxKernelFile”:”bootx64.efi”},”ContainerType”:”linux”,”TerminateOnLastHandleClosed”:true}.
See ‘C:\Program Files\Docker\docker.exe run –help’.
Reply

Josphat Mutai June 6, 2022 At 2:57 pm

Did you get it to work?

Reply

tony November 17, 2022 At 10:35 pm

I have the same problem. Did you get any clue?

Reply

Atanu April 13, 2022 At 5:09 pm

In the linux container part along with restarting the

docker service, the machine restart is also required.
Atleast in my case it worked after that.

Restart-Service docker
Restart-Computer -Force

Thanks.
Reply

Josphat Mutai April 13, 2022 At 7:49 pm

Noted with thanks.

Reply

tony November 17, 2022 At 10:34 pm

I have the same problem to Alex, who has any

solution?
Reply

Mike Jarosch June 1, 2023 At 11:45 pm

Are these instructions still valid given transition of support? Is this

now installing an older version? Do we need to be licensed for
this now?
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/containers/updates-
to-the-windows-container-runtime-support/ba-p/2788799
Reply

Lucas June 27, 2023 At 3:28 pm

This howto is deprecated, see

https://github.com/OneGet/MicrosoftDockerProvider
and
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-
us/virtualization/windowscontainers/quick-start/set-
up-environment?tabs=dockerce#windows-server-1
Reply

Zbynek August 22, 2023 At 8:55 pm

Hi, I’m trying to follow your guide to run Linux based

docker on the Win server 2019. When I try pull or run
ubuntu:latest I get error:
docker : Error response from daemon: missing
signature key

Please help.
I already restarted the docker service as well as the
machine several times.
Trying it as an Administrator…
Thanks.
Reply

Klinsmann Öteyo August 27, 2023 At 10:35 am

Try pulling an image from the Microsoft

Container Registry
Reply

Bill September 3, 2023 At 5:16 am

Can you have both Windows & Linux docker containers

running at the same time on Server 2019? I can see
here its one or the other or have I missed a section?
Reply

Klinsmann Öteyo September 3, 2023 At 12:51 pm

Hello @Bill,
We only have the Linux container running on
Windows.
Reply

Jozef November 20, 2023 At 3:03 pm

Hi, on W2019 I am unable to pass the very first step :

C:\Users\Administrator> Install-Package -Name docker -ProviderName DockerMsftProvider
WARNING: Cannot find path
‘C:\Users\ADMINI~1\AppData\Local\Temp\2\DockerMsftProvider\DockerDefault_DockerSearchIndex.json’
because it does not exist.
WARNING: Cannot bind argument to parameter ‘downloadURL’ because it is an empty string.
WARNING: The property ‘AbsoluteUri’ cannot be found on this object. Verify that the property exists.
WARNING: The property ‘RequestMessage’ cannot be found on this object. Verify that the property exists.
Install-Package : No match was found for the specified search criteria and package name ‘docker’. Try
Get-PackageSource to see all available registered package sources.
At line:1 char:1
+ Install-Package -Name docker -ProviderName DockerMsftProvider
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (Microsoft.Power….InstallPackage:InstallPackage) [Install-Package],
Exception
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId :
NoMatchFoundForCriteria,Microsoft.PowerShell.PackageManagement.Cmdlets.InstallPackage

Any ideas how to proceed?

Reply

Josphat Mutai November 21, 2023 At 4:40 pm

Please check updated article. It should work.

Reply

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