Crossplatform docker compose with aci

Question

Hello,

is it possible to use "docker compose" to run containers from different platforms, in aci?

for exemple:

version: '3'
services:
aci-hellolx:
image: hello-world:linux
container_name: hellolx

aci-hellowin:
image: hello-world:nanoserver
container_name: hellowin

In this example aci always try to run the containers with Linux server

PS C:\Projects\esPrototypes\Docker-Compose\Azure\Hello-World-Winlx> docker context list
NAME TYPE DESCRIPTION DOCKER ENDPOINT KUBERNETES ENDPOINT ORCHESTRATOR
default moby Current DOCKER_HOST based configuration npipe:////./pipe/docker_engine swarm
protoacicontext * aci rg-containers@westeurope
PS C:\Projects\esPrototypes\Docker-Compose\Azure\Hello-World-Winlx> docker compose up
[+] Running 0/1

• Group hello-world-winlx Error 3.0s
  containerinstance.ContainerGroupsClient#CreateOrUpdate: Failure sending request: StatusCode=400 -- Original Error: Code="ImageOsTypeNotMatchContainerGroup" Message="The container image 'hello-world:nanoserver' doesn't support specified OS 'Linux' for container group 'hello-world-winlx'."

Links:

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/68596757/how-to-deploy-windows-container-from-docker-cli-with-aci-support
• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-instances/container-instances-overview
• https://docs.docker.com/cloud/aci-container-features/

Regards

Answer 1

@Éric Louvard Thanks for posting your query.

Issue summary:
Is it possible to use "docker compose" to run containers from different platforms/Windows?

Recommendation:
It is currently not supported for Windows containers. This is a feature request for Docker mainly and not ACI.

Here is the work item on the Docker-ACI roadmap tracking this feature request :
https://github.com/docker/compose-cli/issues/657
https://github.com/docker/roadmap/issues/138
You can add your comment there so that the Docker team consider prioritizing this as part of their roadmap.

Hope that helps answer your question. If you have further questions, please let me know and I would be happy to help.