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Run Linux containers in Windows

Run Linux containers in Windows - Windows Server Tutorial

From the course: Windows Server 2019: Deploying Containers

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Run Linux containers in Windows

- [Man] We're using our Windows Server 2019 container host where we enabled Hyper-V containers, and it's time to run some Linux containers in Windows. Now, we've already done this once in our test when we enable Hyper-V containers by running BusyBox Linux. Now, it's time to run a few, maybe larger Linux containers. So let's first do a docker pull, and let's pull down Ubuntu. And then let's do a docker pull, and pull down Nginx, the most popular Linux-based web server. All right, we'll do a docker image ls, and now we have Ubuntu Linux and Nginx, so let's clear the screen, and first, let's do a docker run minus it, and let's run Ubuntu Linux, and we're presented a root prompt, root @, and then that's the container ID right there. So, thanks to Hyper-V containers that we enabled, and the Linux containers on Windows feature that we enabled, we're able to run Ubuntu Linux in Windows, and really the possibilities are, you know, unlimited with this, of course, any Linux application we…

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