Setting Up Docker on Windows 10

• 2018/09/10

Environment

Windows 10 Pro 64-bit + Docker for Windows.

Installation steps

• Open Control Panel → Programs and Features → Turn Windows features on or off, and enable Hyper-V.
  • Windows prompts for a reboot—go ahead and restart.
• Download Docker for Windows from the release notes page and install it.
• After installation, run docker version in Command Prompt. If version info prints, everything is set.

Using Docker

• Run docker run hello-world to create your first container. Seeing “Hello from Docker!” means the container was created locally.
• Next run docker run -it ubuntu bash and make sure you drop into a bash shell (you can try commands there). Type exit to leave.
• Pull an image from Docker Hub. Here we will grab nginx:

docker pull nginx

List images with:

docker images

• Start nginx with docker run -d -p 80:80 --name mynginx nginx.
• Visit http://localhost:80/ and confirm the server is up—you should see “Welcome to nginx!”.

Tips

• docker ps shows running containers, and docker ps -a lists all containers.
• Stop the server with docker stop mynginx, then hit http://localhost:80/ again to confirm it is down.