Great, I installed Docker (on my large desktop with 64GB, I7-3960X etc etc Windows 10 Ultimate) and did as instructed: use taskbar docker to "Switch to Windows Containers", it required a reboot. After reboot there is no longer a docker icon in taskbar and a command prompt "docker info" fails with "In the default daemon configuration on Windows, the docker client must be run elevated to connect. This error may also indicate that the docker daemon is not running". No idea how to start the "daemon". This is all too typical these days.

Nothing even hinting at docker in the event log.

The Docker systray menu is only available on Windows 10. I am installing Docker on Windows Server 2016 and realized that quite late. It would help if you could mention that in your article. Good concise article though.

Hey Michael, thank for sharing your Docker learnings!

Typo alert: search/replace monogb -> mongodb

Thanks a ton! I've fixed it.

What does the docker exec -it command do?
And why did you have to run 2 docker commands? Does that mean there are 2 containers running?

Think of one as the server and the other as the client. After connecting with the "client", you can see the "server" respond with a connection has been added.

The exec command just runs a command in a running container. See here : https://docs.docker.com/v1....

Great thanks.
Nice article. I'll be following this series