
In the future more versions of Windows 10 are expected to come under support. The current version of Docker for Windows runs on 64bit Windows 10 Pro, Enterprise and Education (1511 November update, Build 10586 or later) editions. You can find some help here.Ĭonfirm Virtualization is enabled in the Task Manager. The steps for this are vendor specific depending on your hardware, but typically the BIOS option is called Virtualization Technology (VTx) or something similar. I had to enable “Advanced Restart” and to be able to make changes to the BIOS. I had some challenges enabling the Virtualization in BIOS as I couldn’t access the BIOS during normal start-up because I had a UEFI-based computer. On some systems, Virtualization needs to be enabled in the BIOS.


If Hyper-V is installed manually without the reboot, Docker for Windows will not work correctly.
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The Docker for Windows installer will enable it for you or to be sure you can install Hyper-V manually by going to ‘Programs and Features’ -> Turn Windows Features on or off -> Hyper-V and click OK. This blog is about my experiences of “How to install Docker for Windows?” and integrating the same to “Bash on Ubuntu on Windows”.īefore installation, you should ensure that the below requirements are satisfied:ĭocker for Windows requires a Hyper-V as well as the Hyper-V Module for Windows Powershell to be installed and enabled. Though Docker started as Linux container technology, understanding the power of the platform, Microsoft quickly embraced the technology to run Docker natively on Windows OS.

With Docker, one can run the entire application stack in a local development machine and deploy to production quickly without worrying how it will perform in the new environment. Following on from his last blog, Anandraj Jagadeesan from our Sydney office, provides steps to install Docker on Ubuntu Bash for Windows.ĭocker’s ability to provide applications with resource isolation, portability, consistency and support continuous integration & testing makes it a very attractive tool for every software engineer.
