Learning Windows Server Containers

Creating a container

The following method creates a container using image microsoft/windowsservercore. CreateContainerParameters provides a lot of options for creating containers like setting up the working directory, Shell, port mappings and so on:

        /// <summary>         /// Creates a Container         /// </summary>         private async static Task<CreateContainerResponse>        CreateContainer()         {             client = new DockerClientConfiguration(new             Uri(containerHostUrl)).CreateClient();             return await client.Containers.CreateContainerAsync            (new CreateContainerParameters()             {                 Image = "microsoft/windowsservercore",                 Name = "mycontainer",                 Shell = new List<string> { "CMD" }             }             );         }