Edge agent in windows version of Docker

[Lars_Andersson]

Trying out Docker for windows.
Should I be able to run the Losant edge agent there?

[Aidan_Zebertavage]

@Lars_Andersson,

Yes you can run the Edge Agent using Docker for Windows. You will need to configure Docker for Windows to run against Linux containers:

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We had another forum thread around this exact topic from last year that may help clear up any configuration question you might have:

Error pulling edge agent using Docker EE on Windows Server 2016

Hi @Trey_Carlee Sorry you’re having troubles. What’s happening is that Windows is trying to pull a Windows-based docker image. Currently, our edge agent does not support the architecture windows-amd64. You can read about all the different types here. But after some research, you can run Linux based images within Windows: It looks like you can toggle which daemon (Linux or Windows) the Docker CLI talks to. In this case, you would have to configure it to use the Linux Daemon. That should solv…

Thanks,
@Aidan_Zebertavage

[Lars_Andersson]

Thanks, I got it to work.