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Pulling windows base images fails

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Problem

I tried pulling the windows/nanoserver image.

After that failed I looked around and found this site

Every one of them fails with the same error message

#docker pull mcr.microsoft.com/windows/nanoserver:1909
ltsc2019: Pulling from windows/servercore
no matching manifest for unknown in the manifest list entries


Additional Info:

Docker version: 18.09.2, build 6247962

Win10 Enterprise 2016 LTSB: Version 10.0.14393 Build 14393

Solution

The problem is twofold:

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The Win10 LTSB is on its newest version and Docker has stopped supporting this version.

This stops Docker from updating.

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Microsoft has moved to its own container registry and in doing so abandoned support for older Docker versions. So while I was pulling from the right registry it could not find a fitting image.

Solution: get an up-to-date, non-LTSB version of Windows

Additional Info:

While the error message did not help in finding the cause the docker log did:

[WindowsDaemon  ][Info   ] debug: a Windows version 10.0.18363-based image is incompatible with a 10.0.14393 host

Code Snippets

[WindowsDaemon  ][Info   ] debug: a Windows version 10.0.18363-based image is incompatible with a 10.0.14393 host

Context

StackExchange DevOps Q#9990, answer score: 3

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