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Configure Docker startup options

Configure Docker startup options - Windows Server Tutorial

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Configure Docker startup options

- [Instructor] It's important to understand how Docker works on Windows Server. You're running the Docker engine which is called Dockerd. If we go into Program Files and then into Docker, it's here that you'll find Dockerd.exe. That's actually the Docker engine or the Docker service that needs to be running. That's the Docker server in other words. You're also running the Docker client, which is Docker.exe, every time you use the Docker command. If we type Docker space version, we're using Docker.exe, the Docker client to talk to Dockerd.exe, the Docker server. Now if we go into services in Windows and scroll down the Docker engine, you can see here it says that it's running and it's set to start up automatically. If we go into the Properties for the Docker engine, you can see the path to the executable is C:Program Files\Docker\Dockerd.exe with an option to run as a service. And it's set to start up automatically. There's really two different ways to control the configuration for the…

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