While Docker Compose is normally used for development and testing, it can also be used for deploying production applications. For the sake of this tutorial, I concentrate on dev-and-test scenarios.

In this post, we have covered a tutorial on how to set up and use Docker on a Windows machine. The process assumes that you are somewhat familiar with the concept of containerization.

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.