Windows 10 Docker Engine Installation with Minikube

Docker Engine is available as open source https://docs.docker.com/engine

Docker is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0

To make the docker engine work properly in windows 10 there are few features we need to enable

To do that, launch "Turn Windows features on or off" from control panel

And enable the below features

• Containers
• Hyper-V
• Virtual Machine Platform
• Windows Hypervisor Platform
• Windows Subsystem for Linux

Then go to docker exe download site for windows

And download latest zip file

Then unzip to any location you want, Example c:\myfiles\docker

Then launch command prompt in administrator mode and add this location to PATH

set PATH=%PATH%;c:\myfiles\docker

Then in command prompt administrator mode start the daemon , simply type dockerd and enter

dockerd

Then in command prompt administrator mode test any example docker image

docker run hello-world:nanoserver

You will get this output 

C:\WINDOWS\system32>docker run hello-world:nanoserver

Hello from Docker!
This message shows that your installation appears to be working correctly.

To generate this message, Docker took the following steps:
 1. The Docker client contacted the Docker daemon.
 2. The Docker daemon pulled the "hello-world" image from the Docker Hub.
    (windows-amd64, nanoserver-1809)
 3. The Docker daemon created a new container from that image which runs the
    executable that produces the output you are currently reading.
 4. The Docker daemon streamed that output to the Docker client, which sent it
    to your terminal.

To try something more ambitious, you can run a Windows Server container with:
 PS C:\> docker run -it mcr.microsoft.com/windows/servercore:1809 powershell

As you can see it is running the windows-amd64 image

To make desktop-linux work you need minikube 

Download minikube.exe from https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/releases and start it 

C:\WINDOWS\system32>minikube start --container-runtime=docker --vm=true

It will install related configuration for Hyper-V and enable the Virtual Switch WSL

Which means you don't have to do it yourself, make sure you don't have another VM created by you otherwise the command lines will get confused and fail

In case there is a timeout issue, then change your Virtual Switch Manager to your WIFI ethernet card or LAN ethernet card

You will get this message

* minikube v1.25.2 on Microsoft Windows 10 Enterprise 10.0.19042 Build 19042
* Automatically selected the hyperv driver
* Starting control plane node minikube in cluster minikube
* Creating hyperv VM (CPUs=2, Memory=4000MB, Disk=20000MB) ...
* Preparing Kubernetes v1.23.3 on Docker 20.10.12 ...
  - kubelet.housekeeping-interval=5m
  - Generating certificates and keys ...
  - Booting up control plane ...
  - Configuring RBAC rules ...
* Verifying Kubernetes components...
  - Using image gcr.io/k8s-minikube/storage-provisioner:v5
* Enabled addons: storage-provisioner, default-storageclass
* Done! kubectl is now configured to use "minikube" cluster and "default" namespace by default

now you can write yaml file for your images and use the below commands to make your linux work with kubectl

Now download kubectl.exe for windows from kubernatives website

Sample NGINX yaml file

kind: Service
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
  name: nginx
  labels:
    app: nginx
spec:
  selector:
    app: nginx
  ports:
  - port: 80
    protocol: TCP
    targetPort: 80
  type: ClusterIP
---
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: nginx
  labels:
    app: nginx
spec:
  replicas: 1
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: nginx
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: nginx
    spec:
      containers:
      - name: nginx
        image: nginx:latest
        imagePullPolicy: Always
        ports:
        - containerPort: 80
          protocol: TCP

you can use kubectl as below
 

C:\MyFiles\app1>kubectl get pods
NAME                    READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
nginx-8d545c96d-x69vj   1/1     Running   0          4m4s

C:\MyFiles\app1>kubectl get deployments
NAME    READY   UP-TO-DATE   AVAILABLE   AGE
nginx   1/1     1            1           4m41s

C:\MyFiles\app1>kubectl get services
NAME         TYPE        CLUSTER-IP     EXTERNAL-IP   PORT(S)   AGE
kubernetes   ClusterIP   10.96.0.1      <none>        443/TCP   12m
nginx        ClusterIP   10.109.3.223   <none>        80/TCP    5m5s

kubectl port-forward service/nginx 8080:80
Forwarding from 127.0.0.1:8080 -> 80
Forwarding from [::1]:8080 -> 80

This command will permanently run Now you can open your browser and type

http://localhost:8080/

You will see the below Output

Welcome to nginx!

If you see this page, the nginx web server is successfully installed and working. Further configuration is required.

Thank you for using nginx.

Thats All :)