programmervsworld/windowsservercore-sling repository overview

⁠Windows Container For Apache Sling 8 Development

This is the windowsservercore container loaded with Java 8 and Apache Sling for development and testing of Sling Applications. While you could use this for production it wasn't created with scaling or production environments in mind.

The core image is quite large if you haven't pulled down windowsservercore before. I would strongly recommend to pull the complete image with:

docker pull microsoft/windowsservercore

Before trying to use any build scripts against it.

⁠Starting

To start it up just use:

docker run -it -p 8080:8080 programmervsworld/windowsservercore-sling

Once started you can go to:

http://<ip>:8080/index.html and http://<ip>:8080/system/console

⁠Stopping

Just used Ctrl-c a few times until you see it stop and return you to the prompt

⁠Issues

⁠Don't know the ip

If you open another powershell console on the host and type:

docker ps

you can find the running instance. Then use the instance id like this:

docker inspect <instance id>

Towards the bottom of the inspect you should see the ip address being used by the instance.

⁠8080 can't be reached

In some rare cases 8080 will be be blocked at the firewall, if so run:

netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="Open Port 8080" dir=in action=allow protocol=TCP localport=8080

and it should solve the issue.