To install Docker on the WSL, you’ll need to jump through a few more hoops. You can now run docker -version from Bash, and you don’t even have to read the rest of this blog post :) Making it work on Windows 10 Anniversary Edition bashrc (and reload your environment) and you’re done! export PATH="$HOME/bin:$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"Įxport PATH="$PATH:/mnt/c/Program\ Files/Docker/Docker/resources/bin"
With Windows 10 Creators Update, accomplishing all of this has become a lot simpler, since it allows you to run Windows executables from Bash. Shortcut: Install Windows 10 Creators Update Also, make sure hardware virtualization is enabled and Hyper-V is installed, lest the engine won’t start. To install the Docker engine on Windows, just go to and download the appropriate distribution.
This also has the advantage that you can start a container from PowerShell and interact with it from Bash, or the other way around – in other words, your computer will still feel just like one machine. Instead, we’ll run the Docker Engine on Windows, and connect to it from Bash. Docker requires access to quite a of lot system calls which aren’t necessarily all implemented on Windows, so getting the engine running under the WSL is probably not so easy. The original title of this post was “Running Docker from Bash on Windows”, but that would have been a slight overstatement. And it’s always bugged me that I couldn’t get Docker working from Bash on Windows – until now. Personally, I love being able to choose between PowerShell, Bash or plain old cmd when I want to script something. When the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) – or, as most people even at Microsoft often refer to it – Bash on Ubuntu on Windows – was announced on Microsoft’s Build conference 2016, a world of new tools opened up to us Windows devs.
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