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# rancher-desktop
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RD isn't intended to be a "server" so while you could probably figure out the external access and restarting bits after the 11 host patches it's not really the intended use case.
h
@wide-mechanic-33041 thanks for the advice. may I know what should be the more appropriate setup? is it running Docker Desktop or something similar on Windows virtualization? should I use Docker Compose for such?
w
well DD is another developer tool... not a server product. compose is a way of configuring multiple containers into a larger application. and RD/DD on Windows depends on WSL2 which won't necessarily function like a server either. If you install the hyper-v role you can create VMs and then the VM can start on boot. Then you could use docker engine inside the VM so it kicks off when the VM starts along with the containers. you can use these dev tools to sort of act like a server, but at the end of the day they sort of were designed for a developer to test code and not as an application hosting system.
h
understand. thanks for your helpful advice.