# 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.

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## Knowledge

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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.

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```html
    &lt;html lang="en"&gt;
      &lt;head&gt;&lt;title&gt;Hello Docker&lt;/title&gt;&lt;/head&gt;
      &lt;body&gt;
        &lt;p&gt;Hello Docker! You have deployed a HTML page.&lt;/p&gt;
      &lt;/body&gt;
    &lt;/html&gt;
```

If you have not already done so, initialize or join the swarm.

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```powershell
    docker swarm init
```

Save the index.html file as a swarm config named homepage.

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```powershell
    docker config create homepage index.html
```

Create an IIS service and grant it access to the homepage config.

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```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
```

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