docker is officially support windows platform now (via vbox) https://docs.docker.com/windows/step_three/ can discourse run in docker on windows? and how to do it

I don’t think Discourse knows where Docker runs.

It’s Docker on Windows, but inside of Docker it’s Ubuntu, as far as I can tell.

I think the way the windows one works is similar to mac, the client runs in windows but the docker server runs in a VM. launcher uses tons of bash so you would not be able to run unless it had cygwin (which it seems to be mucking with) Try it out and see if it works, I don’t know. Worst case, you…

Did anyone try this? Did installing Discourse on Docker for Windows work? .

Pretty late at the party, but… here is my experience with docker on windows: (tl;dr: don’t work. yet) Last Windows 10 update allows you to run windows executables from bash (and probably viceversa) So in theory you only need to replace all docker commands with docker.exe. Yay! Unfortunately, this …

Does discourse support docker on windows?

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) January 8, 2016, 4:17am 3

Does not matter, huge swaths of Ruby and common gems are incompatible with Windows. Not to mention the other stuff in the stack. Won’t work.

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Does discourse support docker on windows?

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