Building Docker Images on Windows Server 2016

Question

We are looking forward to build docker images on a Windows Server 2016 Jenkins slave (though not ideal) for our microservices using a base openjdk image.

We did get Docker EE installed on Windows Server 2016 and as expected getting the below error:

PS C:\> docker pull openjdk:8
8: Pulling from library/openjdk
no matching manifest for windows/amd64 in the manifest list entries

Unlike Windows 10, i have not been able to set the daemon to switch to linux containers.

• Is it possible?
• How can this be done?

• What issues will we be running into if we went this route?

   Docker Version: PS C:\\> docker version Client: Version: 18.03.1-ee-3 API version: 1.37 Go version: go1.10.2 Git commit: b9a5c95 Built: Thu Aug 30 18:42:35 2018 OS/Arch: windows/amd64 Experimental: false Server: Engine: Version: 18.03.1-ee-3 API version: 1.37 (minimum version 1.24) Go version: go1.10.2 Git commit: b9a5c95 Built: Thu Aug 30 18:56:49 2018 OS/Arch: windows/amd64 Experimental: true 

Windows Build:

OS Name: Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Standard OS Version: 10.0.14393 N/A Build 14393

Answer 1

The error is because openjdk:8 is not a windows container. To check this ,you can try pulling "microsoft/nanoserver" and this will work fine because it's a windows container

you can check these links for running linux containers in windows 2016 server:

https://blog.docker.com/2017/09/preview-linux-containers-on-windows/

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowscontainers/deploy-containers/linux-containers

This is an experimental feature so not recommended for production

Another option is to use docker for windows:

https://store.docker.com/editions/community/docker-ce-desktop-windows and in the installation configuration window leave the use windows container unchecked