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Add Windows Server Core variants

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
30/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
docker, ruby, shell

Research direction

Start by comparing the referenced Python windowsservercore Dockerfile with the linked nanoserver-ruby Dockerfile, then inspect this repository's existing Ruby image setup. Define the Windows base-image scope and confirm that the resulting Ruby images support deployment with native Windows libraries.

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Description

Request

Some folks need to deploy Ruby applications on Windows (with native Windows libraries), so the ruby docker-library should support a windows base image. The python base images for windows are based on windowsservercore which is enormous, but it could probably copy everything over to a nano image with a multi-stage build. I've done that with my Ruby base image.

DevKit includes bash, so we can probably do all the same setup at the other ruby images in bash.

Dominant language
Shell
Stars
624
Forks
322
Avg merge
22d 3h
Merged PRs (30d)
1

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