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Iron Contributor

Jul 16, 2017

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How are you expected to adminster nanoserver inside container if powershell is removed?

As per release notes nano server was optimized by removing powershell from it. How are you expected to administer it (or build using dockerfile) for that matter if no powershell is available?

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Stefan Scherer
Jul 17, 2017
With a Dockerfile, the multi-stage builds introduced in Docker 17.05 and COPY deployment.

Here is an example to put Node.js into a nanoserver-insider image without PowerShell: https://github.com/StefanScherer/dockerfiles-windows/blob/07cedcf2cc93e669bba9c961121feda6f43dab59/node/8.1/nano/Dockerfile

If you need PowerShell and can't deploy with just COPY instructions and simple environment changes with setx.exe, then you can use "FROM microsoft/nanoserver-insider-powershell" which is slighly bigger than the "microsoft/nanoserver-insider" image.

Stefan Scherer

Brass Contributor

Jul 17, 2017

With a Dockerfile, the multi-stage builds introduced in Docker 17.05 and COPY deployment.

Here is an example to put Node.js into a nanoserver-insider image without PowerShell: https://github.com/StefanScherer/dockerfiles-windows/blob/07cedcf2cc93e669bba9c961121feda6f43dab59/node/8.1/nano/Dockerfile

If you need PowerShell and can't deploy with just COPY instructions and simple environment changes with setx.exe, then you can use "FROM microsoft/nanoserver-insider-powershell" which is slighly bigger than the "microsoft/nanoserver-insider" image.

Jacob Blanco Rodriguez

Copper Contributor

Aug 01, 2017

That's a great job Stefan ! Congrats !
I think your solution it's great, but if we want to deploy/install a role?
I'm trying to deploy IIS and I have not luck at all, no PS session, no dism, not nanoserverpackage, well nothing seems to work here. Size is important, sure, but it have to be useful and easy to deal with it, otherwise sysadmins does not interesting at all.
Thanks for your post and job.