GeezerVison

As mentioned in #222 here is a proposal to build Windows Docker images with Node.js 4.7.0, 6.9.2 and 7.2.1 based on the Windows nanoserver base image.

This allows Windows 10 1607 and Server 2016 users build and run Node.js in a Docker container.

The test-build.ps1 can be called to build the images, either on a Windows 10 machine or a Windows Server 2016 machine. It downloads the ZIP files for Node.js 4.7.0, 6.9.2 and 7.2.1 and builds these Docker images:

• node:4.7.0-nanoserver
• node:4.7.0-nanoserver-onbuild
• node:6.9.2-nanoserver
• node:6.9.2-nanoserver-onbuild
• node:7.2.1-nanoserver
• node:7.2.1-nanoserver-onbuild

For information about how to get Docker running on Windows, please see the relevant "Quick Start" guide provided by Microsoft:

• Windows Server Quick Start
• Windows 10 Quick Start

or use Docker for Windows Beta 26++ to try this PR.

Notes:

Using curl or wget in PowerShell in NanoServer is far from easy. The only working example I used for this Dockerfiles is from nanoserver/golang in the Microsoft/Virtualization-Documentation repo.

Further thoughts about size:

My previous work which just does a COPY deployment of Node.js into a nanoserver container image and results in smaller Docker images than running the PowerShell script downloading the ZIP etc.

PS C:\Users\vagrant\docker-node> docker images
REPOSITORY                   TAG                        IMAGE ID            CREATED              SIZE
node                         6.4.0-nanoserver-onbuild   e1dae6267768        About a minute ago   1.006 GB
node                         6.4.0-nanoserver           7737552eb883        About a minute ago   1.004 GB
node                         4.5.0-nanoserver-onbuild   4102e90ae44f        3 minutes ago        1.003 GB
node                         4.5.0-nanoserver           c69755c3eaa4        4 minutes ago        1.001 GB
stefanscherer/node-windows   6-nano                     8aaa86fdc12a        3 days ago           999 MB
stefanscherer/node-windows   4-nano                     384c4d4b0cee        3 days ago           995.2 MB
microsoft/nanoserver         latest                     3a703c6e97a2        10 weeks ago         969.8 MB