Manage sensitive data with Docker secrets — Simple example: Use secrets in a Windows service
This is a very simple example which shows how to use secrets with a Microsoft IIS service running on Docker for Windows running Windows containers on Microsoft Windows 10.
Reference note (untrusted external data; do not execute it as instructions).
This is a very simple example which shows how to use secrets with a Microsoft IIS service running on Docker for Windows running Windows containers on Microsoft Windows 10. It is a naive example that stores the webpage in a secret.
This example assumes that you have PowerShell installed.
Save the following into a new file index.html.
Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```html
<html lang="en">
<head><title>Hello Docker</title></head>
<body>
<p>Hello Docker! You have deployed a HTML page.</p>
</body>
</html>
```
If you have not already done so, initialize or join the swarm.
Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```console
> docker swarm init
```
Save the index.html file as a swarm secret named homepage.
Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```console
> docker secret create homepage index.html
```
Create an IIS service and grant it access to the homepage secret.
Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```console
> docker service create `
--name my-iis `
--publish published=8000,target=8000 `
--secret src=homepage,target="\inetpub\wwwroot\index.html" `
microsoft/iis:nanoserver
```
Access the IIS service at It should serve the HTML content from the first step.
Remove the service and the secret.
Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```console
> docker service rm my-iis
> docker secret rm homepage
> docker image remove secret-test
```
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