{"id":422,"date":"2019-02-21T11:01:49","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T16:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/?p=422"},"modified":"2019-02-21T11:02:34","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T16:02:34","slug":"docker-doesnt-do-like-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/2019\/02\/21\/docker-doesnt-do-like-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"Docker Doesn’t Do\/Like Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This is a “techie” article\/rant, so if you’re reading this and not into technology, I suggest you move on. Much of what I’m posting about requires explanation anyway, and doing so would make this article so much longer…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve become interested in Docker recently as the result of a number of customer questions. Docker is a way to “containerize” applications. It’s similar to virtual machines, except VMs deploy a guest operating system inside their silo, whereas containers leverage the host OS directly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Containers vs. Virtual Machines (image courtesy docker.com)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Hearing that one of my colleagues had done some preliminary work in “containerizing” our company’s product, I wanted to see it running “natively” on my Mac. Docker Desktop for Mac is free, so I downloaded and installed it. The next step was fetching (called “pulling”) the app from a Docker online repository, which worked like a charm. Once running, I pointed my (Google Chrome) browser to the URL specified by Docker on my laptop, and voil\u00e0!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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RadiantOne FID on a Mac<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Good stuff. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, the next thing I wanted to do was to install Docker and our app on a Windows machine. Since the program has no native Mac binaries, our customers are all Windows or Linux users. I wanted to perform more of a real-world test.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s where the problems began. On my office computer, Docker downloaded, installed, and ran the sample programs used by online bloggers and sources (“hello-world, busybox). But when it came to running our product, Docker threw errors, complaining that ports needed didn’t have the proper permissions. Ugh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At home that evening, I decided to install Docker on a Windows laptop I had purchased as a “sandbox” machine (expressly for the purpose of experimenting with Windows apps). This was even worse. Docker wouldn’t start, claiming that resources I needed had to be enabled. I spent the better part of a day turning on and turning off BIOS settings, Windows Hyper-V and growing frustrated by the hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back in my office, I thought I’d try some remedial experiments, along with the help (?) and advice (?) of the online community. Most of what I found was old and did not address the current release of Docker. Still, all kinds of problems and suggested solutions abound at the click of a Google search…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m taking a break. If I want to experiment with Docker, I’m turning to my Mac. Docker on Windows is, for me, a deal-killer right now.
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