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WIP: Introduce Windows Docker images #720

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Got AppVeyor setup on my fork: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/LaurentGoderre/docker-node/history

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6GB is when someone wants to pull or create a „tiny“ node hello world app on a fresh Windows 10 or 2016 server. This is the windowsservercore image which weighs so much.

I know the hard constraint for official images. But it‘s a solvable problem in the (more or less small) CI pipeline compared to the benefit for the whole Windows community getting a great and fast experience.

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I can't solve the multibuild but i can try to solve the images. Right now the install works on nanoserver but the subsequent call to gpg fails, as if it isn't aware of the change to $PATH

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StefanScherer commented Jun 13, 2018

You can check binaries with the NanoServer API Scan tool. I‘ve built an image for such tasks.
32bit binaries can‘t be used in NanoServer.
But maybe only a runtime DLL is missing.

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@StefanScherer do you know if there's a way to get access to a cloud version of Windows 10 Enterprise so I could test this without appveyor? I discovered I have PowerShell on my workmachine (which mildly shocked me) so that part is now easier, but the docker part is still hard.

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@LaurentGoderre You could use the 30 days trial at Azure to spin up Windows 10 Pro 1803 which should be good enough to use containers. Use eg. a Standard_D2_v3 (or bigger) instance type which has nested Hyper-V support to be able to run eg. Docker for Windows in such an Azure instance.
Otherwise DM me via email.

    Co-authored-by: Stefan Scherer <scherer_stefan@icloud.com>
    Co-authored-by: Laurent Goderre <laurent.goderre@gmail.com>
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@StefanScherer what is the benefit of having Windows Containers where there are already Linux Containers, especially since LCOW is now possible - (appveyor does support this on a paid plan).

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@swissarmykirpan It all depends on your application and environment. When one of your node modules needs Windows API then it's good to have same packaging as Docker image as on Linux.
When you can run your app in Linux containers then I recommend a Linux VM and not LCOW.
But it all depends on your environment, the servers and OS you can choose etc.

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@LaurentGoderre Yesterday I saw that the golang image has several Windows versions supported. Now that the Windows Server 2019 images are a lot smaller it gets more interesting to stay at the servercore variant for a first release.

Is the build infra for the official node images also able to build for Windows Server 2019? I may have asked that years ago if you use the same infra as eg. for the other official Docker images? :-)

So if there is support for at least Windows Server 2016 and 2019 I could help to get this done as it makes sense to me.

Ok, a version without multi-stage build, so far so good.

One obstacle is that nanoserver no longer has PowerShell support, the 1809 images now have curl.exe and tar.exe in a CMD shell, but scripting all the GPG loop will be painful in just cmd scripts.

So maybe drop the nanoserver image and just use mcr.microsoft.com/windows/servercore:ltsc2016 and mcr.microsoft.com/windows/servercore:ltsc2019

WDYT?

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SimenB commented Jan 8, 2019

Is the build infra for the official node images also able to build for Windows Server 2019? I may have asked that years ago if you use the same infra as eg. for the other official Docker images?

We have our own CI to test PRs, but the official images (the ones you pull down) are built by Docker on their own infra

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StefanScherer commented Jan 8, 2019

Thanks @SimenB

Do you think it would be possible to check PR's for Windows Server 2016 only on your side and let the Docker infra build all four Windows variants to provide a manifest list like the golang?

$ docker run --rm mplatform/mquery node
Image: node
 * Manifest List: Yes
 * Supported platforms:
   - linux/amd64
   - linux/arm/v7
   - linux/arm64
   - linux/ppc64le
   - linux/s390x

$ docker run --rm mplatform/mquery golang
Image: golang
 * Manifest List: Yes
 * Supported platforms:
   - linux/amd64
   - linux/arm/v7
   - linux/arm64
   - linux/386
   - linux/ppc64le
   - linux/s390x
   - windows/amd64:10.0.14393.2665
   - windows/amd64:10.0.16299.846
   - windows/amd64:10.0.17134.469
   - windows/amd64:10.0.17763.194

There are 2016, 1709, 1803 and 1809 variants there, so on any Windows Version it picks the best fitting image (just like working on different Linux CPU architectures).

Windows Server 2019 / Windows 10 1809 brings so many bugfixes for Node.js on Windows (the mapped folders for source code from the host work, port mapping to localhost works, docker pull and extract is faster than on 2016, ...).

And then we have to choose which PR we want to update, this one or #362.

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tianon commented Jan 8, 2019

FYI, for testing Windows images, we've used AppVeyor for a long time (https://github.com/docker-library/golang/blob/60879215d473711ae500cc43acbfa037cf808fb0/.appveyor.yml), but they only currently support the LTSC release of 2016.

Travis recently (https://blog.travis-ci.com/2018-10-11-windows-early-release) added support for Windows with 1803 (https://github.com/docker-library/golang/blob/60879215d473711ae500cc43acbfa037cf808fb0/.travis.yml#L6-L8), which makes it easier to run similar tests across both Windows and Linux, even with Docker. 👍

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Any plans on merging this?

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