Running Windows containers

As already hinted at in the first part of this chapter, launching and interacting with Windows containers using the Docker command-line client is no different from what we have been running so far. Let’s test this by running the hello-world container, as follows:

$ docker container run hello-world

Just as before, this will download the hello-world container and return a message, as illustrated in the following screenshot:

Figure 7.5 – Running the Windows-based hello-world container

The only difference on this occasion is that rather than the Linux image, Docker pulled the windows-amd64 version of the image that is based on the nanoserver-sac2016 image.

Now, let’s look at running a container in the foreground, this time running PowerShell, as follows:

$ docker pull mcr.microsoft.com/windows/servercore
$ docker container run -it mcr.microsoft.com/windows/servercore:ltsc2019 powershell

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