Running Alpine with WSL2 and Docker

wsl2-alpine.md

Running Alpine with WSL2 and Docker

Prepare Windows

1. Turn Windows features on or off
2. Enable:
   1. Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)
   2. Virtual Machine Platform
3. wsl --update

Installing Alpine

• https://github.com/agowa/WSL-DistroLauncher-Alpine

Updating Alpine

# update all packages
apk update
apk upgrade

# update version if required
sed -i -e 's/3.15/3.16/g' /etc/apk/repositories
sed -i -e 's/3.15/latest-stable/g' /etc/apk/repositories
apk update
apk upgrade --available && sync

# then reboot

Docker

# warning, docker-compose is v1
#          docker-compose-cli is v2
apk add docker docker-cli-compose

# custom profile
cat <<EOF > /etc/profile.d/profile.sh
alias ls="ls -Ah --color=auto"
alias ll="ls -l"
alias goproject="cd /mnt/c/Users/carbon/projects"
if [ ! -e /var/run/docker.sock ]; then
    echo "(i) Docker is running"
    dockerd &> /tmp/dockerd.log &
else
    echo "(i) Docker is already running"
fi

export DOCKER_USER="$(id -u):$(id -g)"
goproject
EOF

source /etc/profile.d/profile.sh

Podman

WIP... Podman not really 1:1 to Docker

# podman alternative
apk add podman
ln -s $(which podman) /usr/local/bin/docker