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.

DockerCon Hallway Track - Logging to a NFS mounted Docker Volume

Recently at DockerCon I decided to check out the whole 'Hallway Track' concept and share a sticky situation we ran into at work. If you've never been, the Hallway Track is a coordinated effort to get conference attendees talking to one another and sharing knowledge. You post your topic or peruse the posted topics and they facilitate connecting people together to discuss face to face. I was amazed at the number of people who requested to talk to me about our experiences with the complications of writing application logs to a NFS mounted docker volume. The official title was "Lessons learned: Why writing to flat file logs in an NFS mounted docker volume is unwise".