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I wish there were real / usable Windows containers out there. I'd love to spin up a quick sandbox to run a MSVC / MSBuild, but the smallest "image" in Windows-l
by gigel82 6y ago
I wish there were real / usable Windows containers out there. I'd love to spin up a quick sandbox to run a MSVC / MSBuild, but the smallest "image" in Windows-land for that is 12Gb.
Still use Docker alongside WSL2 for purely-Linux stuff like some node.js scripts or python things that don't need GPU.
- nyellin 6y agoI'm looking at startup ideas in this area. Would you be interested in describing your pain points and use case?
- gigel82 6y agoI just want Docker containers for Windows with a reasonable size. They do have a Server Core (at about 1.5Gb) and a much slimmer NanoServer (100Mb), but the NanoServer is not capable of running the Visual C++ compiler for example. Just look at something like this which tries to compile C++ for VcPkg: https://hub.docker.com/r/hripko/vcpkg/tags?page=1&ordering=last_updated https://hub.docker.com/r/hripko/vcpkg/tags?page=1&ordering=l... (the Linux images are all < 300Mb, but the Windows one is 5Gb compressed).
- newscracker 6y agoIt’s not clear to me what your requirements are, but take a look at Sandboxie for Windows. [1] [1]: https://github.com/sandboxie-plus/Sandboxie https://github.com/sandboxie-plus/Sandboxie