On Windows 10 build 18917 or higher
Win / Enable WSL and VMP
PowerShell:
Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux
Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName VirtualMachinePlatform
Win / Set WSL 2 as default
PowerShell:
wsl --set-default-version 2
Win / Install Linux distro from Microsoft Store
For example Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Win / Optional: Install X11 server
For example VcXsrv.
WSL / Optional: Prepare for X11 on Windows
Add to ~/.bashrc (provide IP of your Windows host):
export DISPLAY=192.168.1.11:0
Win / Install Docker Desktop Edge
Download version 2.1.6.0 or search for latest.
Enable Enable the experimental WSL 2 based engine on General tab.
Enable your WSL distro on Resources tab.
WSL / Install Docker
Bash:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl software-properties-common
curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo apt-key add -
sudo add-apt-repository "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) stable"
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install docker-ce
sudo gpasswd -a $USER docker
sudo mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd
sudo mount -t cgroup -o none,name=systemd cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd
sudo service docker start
WSL / Verify
Bash:
docker info
docker run hello-world
Good instructions. One thing - the
curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo apt-key add –line errored on my Ubuntu 18.04 when I copy and paste it in, even from the raw It looks like the hyphen at the end has some odd control characters around it? (Is it an em dash or en dash rather than a hyphen?)