On October 14, 23025, Microsoft will end support for Windows 10, meaning no more free security updates. Instead of disposing Windows 10, continue to use the system in a VM.

If you want to run your first Docker Windows Server container, you need to first install the required roles and features, and then pull the container.

Once setup running Windows in a docker container allows for easy customization of resources allocated to the Windows virtual machine, including CPU cores, RAM, and disk size.

From there the guide touches on installing Docker within a Debian Linux system. But where it really shines is demonstrating how to use Docker Compose to configure a container and get it running.