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Docker in Hyper-V on Windows 10

July 27, 2015

These are my notes for setting up docker on Windows 10 10240. Don’t take them as any more.

I run all of this from a Git Shell PowerShell instance since that’ll have SSH and git available. The only exception is the actual creation command, which has to be run from an Administrative instance.

Prep

Install Hyper-V

Download Docker-Machine and Docker

mkdir c:\docker
cd c:\docker
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://get.docker.com/builds/Windows/x86_64/docker-latest.exe  -OutFile docker.exe
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://github.com/docker/machine/releases/download/v0.3.0/docker-machine_windows-amd64.exe -OutFile docker-machine.exe

Add docker folder to path for future PS instances

Add-Content -Path $profile -Value '$env:path += ";c:\docker\"'
$env:path += ";c:\docker\"

Create Docker VM

You need to run this from an Administrative PowerShell instance, or you’ll get very unhelpful errors.

If you don’t have a VMSwitch created yet, you’ll need to do that.

#Create a new VMSwitch connected to the first connected NIC
New-VMSwitch -Name External -NetAdapterName (Get-NetAdapter | ? {$_.Status -eq 'Up'} | Select -First 1).Name

#Create the Docker VM
docker-machine create --driver hyper-v dev

Setup for environment for connection with Docker cli

# Add environment variables docker expects
docker-machine env dev | Invoke-Expression

# List containers in your Docker VM
docker ps

See it do something!

docker run hello-world

Misc. commands I’ll want to remember

# Prints available machines to manage
docker-machine ls

# Get IP of Docker VM
docker-machine ip dev

# Start machine
docker start dev

# Stop machine
docker-machine stop

# Add environment variables docker expects
docker-machine env --shell powershell dev | Invoke-Expression

# List containers in your Docker VM
docker ps

Written by Eric Haskins, maker of things.