Install Portrait on Windows

This how to-article will guide you through the installation of Portrait on Windows.

Instructions

This how-to contains of several steps:

1. Install Docker Desktop

2. Install Portrait

3. Configure the most basic setup 

Install Docker Desktop

Go to https://www.docker.com/products/docker-desktop and Download the Docker Desktop Installer.

Execute the Installer, by default this will activate the Hyper-V feature on your Windows machine.

You must restart the machine after installing Docker Desktop.

Docker Desktop will run a virtual environment that is called “Docker Engine”. The engine is a Linux and uses by default 2 cores, 2 GB of memory and has a max. image size of 64GB.

The first startup of Docker Desktop will take a longer, depending on your hardware.

Open the Docker Desktop Dashboard via the System-Tray.
If you see this screen, the Engine is up and running:

Install Portrait

First you need the basic configuration which sets up the container with docker-compose and contains the basic settings file. The files are available as a package and this guide will walk you through download, extraction and usage.

Prepare a folder on your computer where Portrait should be installed, for example: C:\container\portrait.

Execute this PowerShell commands:

wget https://bitbucket.org/treskon/portrait-config/downloads/portrait-3x-base-config.zip -outfile app.zip
expand-archive app.zip .
rm app.zip

You now have a docker-compose.yml and a folder app inside your Portrait location:

• C:\container\portrait\app

• C:\container\portrait\docker-compose.yml

Run docker-compose

Execute this command from inside the folder C:\Portrait\ or $HOME/portrait

docker-compose up -d

Access Portrait

Wait a while and go to http://localhost or test the access with: curl http://localhost.