Teach you how to install docker on windows 10 home edition

When I wrote the Redis book and the Spring Cloud Alibaba book, I found that some distributed components are more suitable for installation in a Linux environment, and when building clusters such as Redis, a Linux environment is more necessary.

The machine I use for daily code practice and book writing runs on Windows 10 Home Edition. In order to simulate the Linux environment, one solution is to install Docker. When I first started installing it, I found that it couldn't be installed. Later, I asked others for help and searched for some methods on the Internet, and finally I succeeded in installing it.

I think this step was not very smooth and I solved several problems in the process. In this article, I will list the installation steps in detail and give methods to solve related problems for your reference.

The first step is to create a new txt file and change the suffix to .cmd. The content is as follows.

pushd "%~dp0"
dir /b %SystemRoot%\servicing\Packages\*Hyper-V*.mum >hyper-v.txt
for /f %%i in ('findstr /i . hyper-v.txt 2^>nul') do dism /online /norestart /add-package:"%SystemRoot%\servicing\Packages\%%i"
del hyper-v.txt
Dism /online /enable-feature /featurename:Microsoft-Hyper-V-All /LimitAccess /ALL

Then run the above cmd file as an administrator. If prompted to restart, restart.

Step 2 : Check if Hyper-V is checked. If not, check it. This step may also require restarting the computer.

The third step is to open cmd as an administrator and run the command to modify the registry.

The specific method is to find cmd.exe in the C:\Windows\System32 directory, right-click, and select Run as administrator.

In the cmd command window, execute the following command to disguise the computer as win10 professional version by modifying the registry.

REG ADD "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion" /v EditionId /TR
Please note that after modifying the registry with the above command, the value of the registry will be changed back the next time you restart the computer, so please install Docker immediately after the modification.

Step 4. Download and install docker from the official website.
The official website address is this: https://hub.docker.com/editions/community/docker-ce-desktop-windows

After the installation is complete, restart as prompted.

According to the instructions in many documents, the installation can be completed, but after the installation, I still encountered the following problems.

“WSL 2 installation is incomplete.”

This means that the wsl2 version I am using is old and I need to update it manually. According to the documents I found, I went to Microsoft's official website to download the latest version of wsl2.

The link address is this: https://wslstorestorage.blob.core.windows.net/wslblob/wsl_update_x64.msi

After downloading the update, there are also problems similar to the following:

unable to resolve docker endpoint: open C:\Users\TomYuan\.docker\machine\machines\default\ca.pem: The system cannot find the path specified.
The explanation on the Internet is that other versions of Docker have been installed on the computer before, and when I think about it, it is true.

The solution given online is: uninstall docker 19, delete the corresponding environment variables, delete the files under C:\Program Files\Docker, and reinstall docker

However, I only deleted the Docker-related environment variables as shown in the figure below, and just restarted Docker without uninstalling and installing it. Later, the problem was solved.

After installing docker, run the docker -v command and you can see the version number, which verifies that the installation was successful.

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