When will support for deploying the Discourse development environment using WSL containers be available?

[AkarinLiu (阿卡林刘（刘贤宏）)]

Microsoft recently introduced WSL containers. My computer has Docker Desktop and WSL installed, but developing Discourse plugins or themes on Windows currently requires Docker. With this new feature, we won’t need to rely on Docker anymore. I wonder when support for installing Discourse using WSL containers will be available?

[NateDhaliwal]

This is already possible. See here:

Install Discourse on Windows for development

This tutorial has been tested on Windows 10 and 11. To set up a development environment for Discourse on Windows, you can do it using Windows Subsystem for Linux feature. This setup requires the WSL 2 installation. It is only available in Windows 10 builds 18917 or higher. We’ll assume that you already installed Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (Ubuntu) on your Windows 10 system. WARNING: Install Ubuntu 18.04, and not 20.04 since some installations will fail on 20.04. For m…