With Windows 10 introducing WSL2 you can now run Docker image from Ubuntu running via WSL2 that’s connected to your Host’s Docker Desktop app.
Can ubuntu docker container run on windows 10?
Overview It is now possible to run Docker containers on Windows 10 and Windows Server, leveraging Ubuntu as a hosting base. Imagine running your own Linux applications on Windows, using a Linux distribution you are comfortable with: Ubuntu! It is now possible to do so using the power of Docker technology and Hyper-V virtualization on Windows.
It is now possible to run Docker containers on Windows 10 and Windows Server, leveraging Ubuntu as a hosting base. Imagine running your own Linux applications on Windows, using a Linux distribution you are comfortable with: Ubuntu!
It is now possible to run Linux docker images on Windows 10 natively using Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2). Go to Docker Settings -> General and check mark “Use the WSL 2 based engine”.
Can I run Docker on a Windows Nano Server?
In same rare cases, you can migrate your code to .. NET Core, but still run on Windows Nano server, with an image size of 95 MB. If you are using Docker-for-Windows, you can run now both windows and Linux containers simultaneously: Running Docker Windows and Linux Containers Simultaneously.
While researching we ran into the query “Can Docker run Linux containers?”.
, and that’s right. Docker for Windows can run Linux or Windows containers, with support for Linux containers via a Hyper-V Moby Linux VM (as of Docker for Windows 17.10 this VM is based on Linux. Kit).
What is the difference between Docker and Ubuntu?
As far as Windows is concerned Docker is just another distro that runs on top of Linux’s kernel. The integration between Docker Desktop really enables different distro to talk to each other so in our case, Ubuntu was able to run and execute commands that affect the other VM running inside the docker distro.
While I was researching we ran into the question “How do I create a docker container in Ubuntu?”.
Prepare the container environment Create C:\lcow, which will be used as scratch space for Docker while preparing the containers. This is where the Ubuntu container image will live. You will need to give this folder extra permissions to allow Docker to use the images from it.
Why can’t I pull a Ubuntu image from a Linux container?
Your issue is that your are using docker in Windows container mode and trying to pull a ubuntu image which is linux container image. You can’t do that. You can run either windows containers or you can run linux containers. Thanks for contributing an answer to Stack Overflow!