jpb Veteran   Posts: 168 Joined: 5/11/2005 Location: Brown Deer, WI  User Profile | I explored it, but never went beyond reading and collecting opinions. The predominant opinion I found was that for a gui based desktop application (OT), the installation location of the application, and the corresponding complex windows registry, the administration of the Docker image would be excessive if not impractical. I looked again a few months ago and got the same answer -- didn't find anyone brave enough to put a VB.NET GUI app in Docker yet. I've seen Android Studio (a java based application) placed in Docker and run as a GUI app. But that was on a Linux or Mac where they exported the display. For VB.NET to work in Docker, it would have to be on a Windows host for now. I don't think Docker is ready yet to handle the intricacies. For now, the only answer I've seen is to virtualize the full OS instance and install OT on top of it. Maybe some day, we will have a Docker solution, but I think the focus is datacenter deployment of GUI-less apps that serve functionality and data to some other device. | |
