Beginners’ Guide for Microsoft Hyper-V: How To Install Docker Container on Windows Server — Part 27

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Becoming familiar with containers and containerized infrastructure will most certainly put you in close contact with Docker and Docker containers. You can run Docker containers on your Windows Server with Hyper-V installed and provide a way to run your containerized workloads effectively. This post will look at working with Docker containers in Windows.

Windows Docker containers tools

Before we talk about working with Docker containers in Windows, it is good to understand the tools we can use to work with containers in Windows. There are two ways we will look at working with Windows Server containers. These include:

• Docker command line
• Windows Admin Center

The Docker command line is a great way to interact with your containers running in Windows, as it arguably provides the most robust way to work with your containers. With the Docker command line tools, you can start, stop, remove, export, import, inspect, and configure the containers running on your Windows container host.

However, there is another tool Microsoft is heavily working on. That is the Windows Admin Center (WAC) tool. It is now the de facto standard for managing and configuring Windows Server, taking the place of the traditional Server Manager. In addition, Microsoft has continuously improved the container support in Windows Admin Center and continues to introduce features and capabilities with container management.

Read this article to know more…