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DWND Setup

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Danilenko Alexander edited this page Feb 28, 2017 · 1 revision

How to setup and use Native Docker on Windows

  1. Ensure that your processor support hardware virtualization and enable it in your BIOS.

  2. Download and install stable version of Docker from https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-windows/

  3. On first start Docker will ask you for enabling Hyper-V as it's required for native Docker (see screenshot below). Install it. It will reboot your PC and enable Hyper-V on your Windows.

    Example of Hyper-V enabling prompt
    Warning: As i said before - you need to run Windows 10 Professional, Enterprise or Education editions of Windows 10 because only this editions are supporting of Hyper-V.

  4. Share resources of your PC with docker. In short - more CPUs and RAM = Faster containers.
    Example of settings page
    Warning: Selected size of RAM will be permanently used from your PC. It means that you will not be able to use this amount of RAM until docker is stopped. Other words - once you start docker, you system will automatically allocate selected amount of ram for Docker needs.

We are web developers, right? It means that we need to run some cool things like PHPStorm and Google Chrome, which eats tons of RAM. So allocate RAM very clever. Personally i like to share all CPU cores and 1/4 of total amount of RAM.

5. **Select some drives** and allow your folders from your selected drives to be mounted into containers ![Example of drive sharing settings page](http://armarium.org/u/2016/08/31/a93f88306bb541d2d3d5a0bca17be4e1.jpg)

6. Run some containers.

7. Now you are the rockstar! Enjoy yourself!

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