Central Management - Install all aspects in docker container

[FLeven]

It would speed up deployment, if there's a windows docker container to setup up the central management dashboard, has this been tested and is it working ?

[ferventcoder]

Hi @FLeven! Certain aspects have been tested. However there is one gating issue that prevents all of it from being set up into a container and that is the service installation. It makes use of a way of determining if a user exists and then creating a user that isn't available in Docker (Server service is removed) that does still work in Server.Core. I get why the service was removed, but it broke methods of programmatically searching for users.

In that aspect, we'll need to have someone provide a user/password and then a parameter for not checking to see if they exist and just trust that someone has set on up correctly to run as a service.

[ferventcoder]

Also, as far as speeding up deployment of Central Management (and other Chocolatey recommended infrastructure for organizations), we have what's known as QDE (Quick Deployment Environment) - https://chocolatey.org/docs/quick-deployment-environment

[ferventcoder]

Since you can't actively do this, it may be best to leave this open.

[FLeven]

Would still be great...

[gep13]

@FLeven what did you close this issue? For something like this, we keep the issue open, so that we can prioritize the work.