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January 7, 2018

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Setting up Docker on an Azure VM for Development

One of my goals for 2018 is to ramp up with using containerization as a go to approach to development.  Thus, having a solid development environment that can run Docker is certainly a must.  Just like with many enterprises, Windows 7 or Windows 8.X dominates still and thus you may end up stuck, due to Docker on Windows requirements.

Azure comes to the rescue here with Nested Virtualization feature for Dv3 and Ev3 VMs.

  1. Install a Windows 10 Pro image with Standard_D4_v3 size and make sure its location is either East or West 2.
  2. Install Hyper-V on Windows 10 Pro
    Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName:Microsoft-Hyper-V -All
  3. Install Docker for Windows as per standard instructions.

That was easy.  Don’t forget to turn on auto shutdown for your developer VM to conserve credits.  Cheers!

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