Setting up development environment in Docker on Windows

Requires: Some Linux command line knowledge
Takes: A few hours depending on your machine and network connection (more if you hit errors). Requires multiple reboots.

Install Windows Subsystem for Linux

Install Docker Desktop for Windows

• https://docs.docker.com/desktop/install/windows-install/
  • Might want to read the system requirements
• Take defaults
• Run Docker Desktop and accept license.
• Let it start.

Verify in (restarted) Ubuntu terminal:

• $ docker --version
• Docker version 20.10.17, build 100c701

Run git clone as described in platform-independent steps.

Install (and run) Visual Studio Code:

• https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/wsl

Run the rest of the steps in platform-independent steps.

Notes

• After rebooting, you might have to run the Docker Desktop to start the Docker daemon (or add it to your startup as described here).