Any Plans for Docker running on Windows on ARM

[cobrow]

Any near term plans for releasing a Docker for Windows that runs ARM64 or x86 to run on Windows on ARM?

[justincormack]

Hi, planning to do some work to investigate feasibility. It would run arm64 Linux containers (we could run x86 emulation with Qemu), with WSL2. I don't believe Windows containers are feasible at this time.

[lmbagley]

Any progress?

[Trolldemorted]

@justincormack Did you mean x86(_64) containers are not feasible, or that windows containers in general are not feasible?

Since windows server supports ARM, running windows ARM docker containers on it is obviously desirable.

[clarkezone]

I'm interested in this for running docker on a Surface Pro X device.. any progress?

[JackTiber]

Adding a +1 to @clarkezone comment. Would love to be able to test builds on the Surface Pro X.

[awakecoding]

+1 on this, I would really like to see Docker on Windows ARM64, may it be for Windows or Linux ARM64 containers.

[dennisameling]

+1 here for the Surface Pro X. Have installed WSL2 and would be absolutely wonderful if we could get Docker Desktop working on this device through WSL2 as well. Please let us know if there's anything the community can do to support!

[dennisameling]

FYI - just created a feature request in Docker's roadmap repo: docker/roadmap#91. Apparently that's the best channel to request new features 🚀

[anthonyikeda]

If Apple announces ARM processors this month this may be a good opportunity to get this running. :)

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[mannok]

Any update on this?

[PrimeSpiritborn]

Super curious if any movement has been made on this?

[awakecoding]

@th3g3ntl3men not that I know of, your best option right now is to do everything inside WSL2. It's just a pain not to have the corresponding Windows Docker integration, but it's better than nothing.

[PrimeSpiritborn]

@awakecoding ok, that is what I am doing right now, and it works. Just can be a pain sometimes. Thanks for the response :)

[fiscal-cliff]

1. add yourself to a docker group
2. restart shells
3. run dockerd in another wsl2 session
4. ???
5. Run your docker-command

You have to install docker to your wsl2 distibution and it supposed to be an aarch64 docker server.

[joesdu]

mark

[nicks]

hi all! Thanks for the request. I'm going to mark this as a duplicate of docker/roadmap#91 so we can communicate status in one place.

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