docker_nano_host

A sample cookbook that can configure a Windows Nano Server as a Docker container host.

Requirements

chef-dk 0.18.26 or greater
Recent version of Vagrant

Creating the nano docker host with test kitchen

simply run kitchen converge
Creates a Nano vagrant box running as a docker host and listening on port 2375
On VirtualBox add a port forwarding rule for port 2375 from host to guest
Set DOCKER_HOST to tcp://<ip of vm>:2375
Now docker commands should run against the Nano host

Running a windows container

Install the docker client locally (windows or linux)
Ensure your DOCKER_HOST is set as above
docker pull microsoft/nanoserver
docker run -it microsoft/nanoserver powershell

Vagrant hang on Nano RTM

There is an issue with the RTM Windows Nano image that will hang a vagrant box when it first tries to authenticate during kitchen create. Vagrant validates winrm connectivity using powershell in such a way that breaks. A small change to the vagrant source can work around this. Update C:\HashiCorp\Vagrant\embedded\gems\gems\vagrant-1.8.5\plugins\communicators\winrm\communicator.rb and change

        result = Timeout.timeout(@machine.config.winrm.timeout) do
          shell(true).powershell("hostname")
        end

        result = Timeout.timeout(@machine.config.winrm.timeout) do
          shell(true).cmd("hostname")
        end

This PR has been submitted to fix this in Vagrant.

I want to run on Windows Azure

You can do this using Stuart Preston's excellent kitchen-azurerm driver.

Change the .kitchen.yml driver and platform config to look like:

---
driver:
  name: azurerm

driver_config:
  subscription_id: 'your subscription id'
  location: 'West Europe'
  machine_size: 'Standard_F1'

platforms:
  - name: windowsnano
    driver_config:
      image_urn: MicrosoftWindowsServer:WindowsServer:2016-Nano-Server-Technical-Preview:latest