Common configuration tasks¶

Disabling the Firewall¶

Disable the firewall as it will interfere with connectivity to the docker containers.

In an admin powershell run the following command.

Set-NetFirewallProfile -Profile Domain,Public,Private -Enabled False

Disabling CPU Parking¶

Disable CPU parking by running the following 2 commands.

Powercfg -setacvalueindex scheme_current sub_processor CPMINCORES 100

Powercfg -setactive scheme_current

Disabling administrator password expiry¶

This can be completed with PowerShell using a command similar to this:

Set-LocalUser -Name "administrator" -PasswordNeverExpires 1

Configuring a proxy server for Docker¶

To set proxy information for docker search and docker pull, create a Windows environment variable with the name HTTP_PROXY or HTTPS_PROXY, and a value of the proxy information. This can be completed with PowerShell using a command similar to this:

[Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable("HTTP_PROXY", "http://username:password@proxy:port/", [EnvironmentVariableTarget]::Machine)

Restart-Service docker

For more information on configuring Docker, please visit this webpage

Setting Virus Scanners to Exclude the Docker Container Cache¶

When running Docker on a host it is prudent to exclude the docker cache location from real time scanning.

The default location is C:\ProgramData\docker

Common configuration tasks¶

Disabling the Firewall¶

Disabling CPU Parking¶

Disabling administrator password expiry¶

Configuring a proxy server for Docker¶

Setting Virus Scanners to Exclude the Docker Container Cache¶

McAfee¶

Windows Defender¶

Trend Micro¶

AVG¶

Comodo¶

Norton¶