Thursday, October 31, 2019

Setting up Docker Desktop on Windows 10

I was speaking with someone this morning that was attempting to get their stack running on Windows, but running into issues with volume paths. It emphasized for me that it's been a while since I attempted to work with Docker on Windows and I should probably refresh that, so I did!

This is a quick walk through of how to set up Docker Desktop on Windows 10 Pro, with some of the common pitfalls, and a demo stack you can use to verify that your Docker installation can properly access the volumes created on Windows drives.