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Setting up External Networking and Static IP for WSL2 using Hyper-V

This guide will walk you through the steps to configure your WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux) instance to use an external Hyper-V virtual switch, enabling it to connect directly to your local network. Additionally, you'll learn how to assign a static IP address to your WSL2 instance.

Prerequisites

1. Windows 11
2. **Docker Desktop For Windows (Latest Version)

Docker Setup

Inside the root of the project exists the docker-compose.yaml file, you can simply run docker-compose up to launch the backend.

Things to note:

• When installing NPM packages, you will need to rebuild the node-app container
• Making changes to the server files will restart the node-app

Local Stack

• LocalStack Front end (Optional) - https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9ntrnft9zws2?hl=en-us&gl=US
• http://localhost:4566/_aws/ses will allow you to see emails sent

Docker Commands

General docker-compose Commands:

1. Bring up the services, force a rebuild of all services, and do not use the cache: docker-compose up --build --no-cache
2. Start Containers in Detached Mode: This will run the containers in the background (detached mode): docker-compose up -d
3. Stop and Remove Containers: Stops and removes the containers gracefully: docker-compose down
4. Stop containers without removing them: docker-compose stop
5. Remove Containers, Volumes, and Networks: docker-compose down --volumes
6. Force rebuild of containers: docker-compose build --no-cache
7. View running Containers: docker-compose ps
8. View a specific containers logs: docker-compose logs <container-name>
9. Scale services (multiple instances of a service): docker-compose up --scale <container-name>=<instances number> -d
10. Watch a specific containers logs in realtime with timestamps: docker-compose logs -f --timestamps <container-name>

Volume Management Commands

1. List Docker volumes: docker volume ls
2. Remove Unused volumes docker volume prune
3. Remove specific volumes docker volume rm <volume-name>
4. Inspect a volume: docker volume inspect <volume-name>

Container Image Management Commands:

1. List running containers: docker ps
2. List all containers: docker os -a
3. Remove Stopped containers: docker container prune
4. Remove a specific container: docker container rm <container-name>
5. Remove a specific image: docker rmi <image-name>:<version>
6. Remove all unused images: docker image prune -a

Network Management Commands:

1. List networks: docker network ls
2. Inspect a specific network: docker network inspect <network-name>
3. Remove a specific network: docker network rm <network-name>
4. Remove unused networks: docker network prune

Debugging and maintenance:

1. Enter a Running container: docker exec -it <container name> /bin/bash (could also be /bin/sh or for example redis-cli on a redis node)
2. View container resource usage: docker stats
3. Check Disk space used by Docker: docker system df
4. Remove all unused Data (Nuclear option): docker system prune

Specific examples

1. To simulate a Clean state, one should run docker system prune followed by docker volume prune -a
2. You can run docker-compose up without the -d option, and you will get what is identical to the experience you were used to, this includes being able to control-c and bring the entire stack down