Learning Windows Server Containers

Creating Redis image and container

The previous Dockerfile contains all the basic setup to create a Redis container image for Windows. The following commands build a Redis image and create a Windows Container. The same image can also be used to create a Hyper-V Container by using the -isolation option.

1. Open a new PowerShell command window as Administrator, navigate to C:\learningwsc\chapter7\redis-server.
2. Run the following command to build the Redis Server Windows Container image with the name learningwsc/redis-server. Ensure the image is successfully built by checking for the message Successfully built <IMAGEID>.

       docker build -t learningwsc/redis-server .

3. Create a detached container and map port 6379 to the container host with the following ...