

This is super convenient for development environments to share configuration files or even source code.

#A SNEAK PEEK WINDOWS 10#
On the Windows 10 host list the files in the shared folder PS C:\> dir host In the Windows container create a file in that mounted volume. docker run -i -v C:\host:C:\test microsoft/nanoserver:1709 cmd On the Windows 10 host run a Windows container and bind mount the folder as C:\test in the Windows container. In the Linux container create a file in that mounted volume. docker run -it -v C:\host:/test alpine sh On the Windows 10 host run a Linux container and bind mount the folder as /test in the Linux container. The following example shares a folder from the host with a Linux and Windows container.įirst create a folder on the Windows 10 host: cd \ You can bind mount a volume into Linux and Windows containers. Let's see how containers of different platforms can share data in a simple way. The LinuxKit project provides an image for LCOW at. To allow Windows run Linux containers a small Hyper-V VM is needed. Once you have pulled Linux images you can run them without the -platform option. This option is also needed when the specific Docker images is a multi-arch image for both Linux and Windows. But wait, this is still a Windows Insider feature coming to Windrelease.Īt the moment you need to specify the -platform option to pull Linux images. You can publish ports to your host and use localhost.The containers can talk to each other over the container networks.You can use volumes to share data between containers and the host.The Docker command docker ps lists all your running Linux and Windows containers.So let's have a look how a Windows 10 developer machine will look like in near future. With that feature enabled you will be able to run both Linux and Windows containers side-by-side with a single Docker engine. Last week a major pull request to support Linux Containers on Windows (LCOW) has landed in master branch of the Docker project.
