Occasionally it can be useful to access a running container. On Linux it is possible to open a bash session with a new instance of the container’s shell with docker exec -it [containername] bash. Because the Docker interface works the same way on Windows it is surprisingly easy to open a command prompt for a running container. Simply execute docker exec -it [containername] cmd. When you want to exit again, just use the exit command. ...
With Windows Server 2016 available it’s time to find out all the little details when using Docker to administrate containers. A common scenario is accessing a private/internal hosted Docker Registry protected with a self-signed certificate (Details). Here is how you enable the Docker daemon and CLI on Windows Server 2016 to use your certificate when talking to the registry. Have your certificate (.crt) file available on the server Copy it to C:\ProgramData\docker\certs.d\[hostname][port]\ca.crt Example with internal registry on DNS and port myinternalregistry:5000: ...