Windows for Linux Nerds

Re:Windows for Linux Nerds by cube2222 on Thursday September 14, 2017 @05:53AM (#15246362)

Try to use docker for Windows. Hyperv is extremely performant. In my day to day work I'm using Windows, but I'm constantly using a mixture of WSL and docker. I set up things like Cassandra, MySQL, debugging sessions, nginx using docker. For small Unix tools/launching my applications I use WSL. For other small tools I use powershell.

It took some time getting use to it, but now I actually do feel like in an utopia. No pain for the last 3-4 months or so. You do have to get proficient with docker though for this to work.

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Re:Windows for Linux Nerds by drdaeman on Thursday September 14, 2017 @12:15PM (#15249446)

Sorry, but can you please share any recipes for mixing WSL and Docker, or you just meant that you use one or another on project-to-project basis (not together)?

I know I can do basic commands (even building images with `docker -H 127.0.0.1 build -t foo .` works), but I failed to find any way to share WSL filesystem with the containers (`docker run -v $(pwd):/foo ...`).

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Re:Windows for Linux Nerds by cube2222 on Thursday September 14, 2017 @12:54PM (#15249907)

Well, let's say my project's in C:\Development\Projects\MyAmazingProject

I can open bash there (WSL), or start a container

docker run -v C:\Development\Projects\MyAmazingProject:/mnt/project --net=host -it ubuntu bash

Though i usually do this only when I need to debug something. (WSL can't spawn additional threads, which breaks for example Delve, the Go debugger)

Need to connect to a cassandra db? docker run -it cassandra cqlsh mycassandraaddress

Docker compose works well too. And because WSL has unified network interfaces with windows, I can easily start a process in WSL and access a DB which I've run in docker.

I use docker from PowerShell, just saying.

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Re:Windows for Linux Nerds by scotu on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @03:20AM (#15291479)

just as a note to whom might read the parent comment: correct me if I'm wrong but docker for windows is not available on windows home (I think you need windows pro, because home does not come with hyperv)... that's all :)

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Re:Windows for Linux Nerds by cube2222 on Saturday September 23, 2017 @09:22AM (#15319604)

just as a note to whome might read both parent comments: yes, that's correct. I'd even add to this, that I absolutely wouldn't be able to use win 10 home as a development machine, pro is necessary for me.

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