Ability to run Linux containers on Windows runner

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
docker, github-actions
Domain
ci-cd, devops

Research direction

Start by reproducing the setup-wsl and setup-docker-action workflow on a Windows GitHub runner with Linux containers enabled. Read the action's Windows setup path and Docker engine selection behavior; done means the documented workflow can run Linux-container integration tests on the Windows runner.

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Description

I need to run integration tests on a Windows GitHub runner that uses Linux containers. Running directly on a Linux runner is not an option as I'm testing this specific configuration (Windows running Linux containers). I tried this:

If I install WSL2 and Docker on a Windows runner:

      - name: Set up WSL
        if: ${{ matrix.os == 'windows-latest' }}
        uses: Vampire/setup-wsl@v5

      - name: Set up Docker
        uses: docker/setup-docker-action@v4
        with:
          daemon-config: |
            {
              "features": {
                "containerd-snapshotter": true
              }
            }

but docker still tries to use Windows containers. The installed distribution contains docker and dockerd but I believe we need dockercli in order to run dockercli -SwitchLinuxEngine in order use Linux containers.

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