docker / docker/setup-docker-action
Ability to run Linux containers on Windows runner
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Description
Description
I need to run integration tests on a Windows GitHub runner that uses Linux containers. Running directly on a Linux runner is not an option as I'm testing this specific configuration (Windows running Linux containers). I tried this:
If I install WSL2 and Docker on a Windows runner:
- name: Set up WSL
if: ${{ matrix.os == 'windows-latest' }}
uses: Vampire/setup-wsl@v5
- name: Set up Docker
uses: docker/setup-docker-action@v4
with:
daemon-config: |
{
"features": {
"containerd-snapshotter": true
}
}
but docker still tries to use Windows containers. The installed distribution contains docker and dockerd but I believe we need dockercli in order to run dockercli -SwitchLinuxEngine in order use Linux containers.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reproducing the setup-wsl and setup-docker-action workflow on a Windows GitHub runner with Linux containers enabled. Read the action's Windows setup path and Docker engine selection behavior; done means the documented workflow can run Linux-container integration tests on the Windows runner.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- docker, github-actions
- Domain
- ci-cd, devops
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100