About

This is a containerd on Ubuntu and Windows Server 2022 Vagrant environment for playing with Linux and Windows containers.

For Docker on Windows Server 2022 see the rgl/docker-windows-2022-vagrant repository.

Usage

Install the Base Ubuntu 22.04 Box.

Install the Base Windows Server 2022 Box.

Install the required plugins:

vagrant plugin install vagrant-reload

Then launch the environment:

vagrant up --provider=libvirt --no-destroy-on-error --no-tty

Enter the windows virtual machine:

vagrant ssh windows

Test executing a nanoserver container with ctr:

ctr image pull mcr.microsoft.com/windows/nanoserver:ltsc2022
ctr run --cni --rm mcr.microsoft.com/windows/nanoserver:ltsc2022 test cmd /c ver
ctr run --cni --rm mcr.microsoft.com/windows/nanoserver:ltsc2022 test cmd /c set
ctr run --cni --rm mcr.microsoft.com/windows/nanoserver:ltsc2022 test ipconfig /all
ctr run --cni --rm mcr.microsoft.com/windows/nanoserver:ltsc2022 test curl https://httpbin.org/user-agent

Test executing a multi-platform image container with ctr:

ctr image pull docker.io/ruilopes/example-docker-buildx-go:v1.12.0
ctr run --cni --rm docker.io/ruilopes/example-docker-buildx-go:v1.12.0 test

Test executing a nanoserver container with nerdctl:

nerdctl run --rm mcr.microsoft.com/windows/nanoserver:ltsc2022 cmd /c ver
nerdctl run --rm mcr.microsoft.com/windows/nanoserver:ltsc2022 cmd /c set
nerdctl run --rm mcr.microsoft.com/windows/nanoserver:ltsc2022 cmd /c ipconfig /all
nerdctl run --rm mcr.microsoft.com/windows/nanoserver:ltsc2022 cmd /c curl https://httpbin.org/user-agent

Test executing a multi-platform image container with nerdctl:

nerdctl run --rm ruilopes/example-docker-buildx-go:v1.12.0

List this repository dependencies (and which have newer versions):

export GITHUB_COM_TOKEN='YOUR_GITHUB_PERSONAL_TOKEN'
./renovate.sh

Caveats

• There is no support for building Windows containers because buildkitd is not available for Windows.
  • See moby/buildkit#616
• See all the known Windows issues at https://github.com/containerd/nerdctl/labels/platform%2FWindows.

Troubleshoot

• See the Microsoft Troubleshooting guide and the CleanupContainerHostNetworking page.

References

• Tech Community Windows Server Containers News
• Using Insider Container Images
• Beyond \ - the path to Windows and Linux parity in Docker (DockerCon 17)
• The Internals Behind Bringing Docker & Containers to Windows (DockerCon 16)
• Introducing the Host Compute Service