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Store configuration data using Docker Configs — Simple example: Use configs in a Windows service

This is a very simple example which shows how to use configs 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 configs 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 config. 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): ```powershell docker swarm init ``` Save the index.html file as a swarm config named homepage. Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically): ```powershell docker config create homepage index.html ``` Create an IIS service and grant it access to the homepage config. Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically): ```powershell docker service create --name my-iis --publish published=8000,target=8000 --config 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 config. Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically): ```powershell docker service rm my-iis docker config rm homepage ``` Attribution: Adapted from Docker Documentation under Apache-2.0. Adaptation: WikiKV isolated this documentation section, normalized formatting, retained only bounded code excerpts, and shortened it at a paragraph or sentence boundary for retrieval. Verify version-sensitive details at the source.
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