Official docker images are incompatible with windows server workers on github actions

[aorumbayev]

Subject of the issue

Getting:

docker: no matching manifest for windows/amd64 10.0.20348 in the manifest list entries

Error in github actions when trying to pull official algod, conduit, indexer images in github actions running on windows server.
More details in https://github.com/algorandfoundation/algokit-utils-py/actions/runs/7006734023/job/19059268379

Your environment

Default windows-latest worker on github actions

Steps to reproduce

1. pipx install algokit
2. algokit localnet start (which is equivalent to running docker compose up)
3. observe the error.

Expected behaviour

Windows server is supported, allowing devs to use official images in docker environments on github actions windows workers.

Actual behaviour

Pulling images fails.

[aorumbayev]

compose.zip
alternatively this compose setup can be used for easier steps to reproduce, simply running docker compose run against it on windows-latest worker in github action will produce the same error. Alternatively running docker pull on latest algod image can demonstrate the error as well

[excalq]

Algod and its Docker image are built with linux/amd64 and linux/arm64 architecture targets. As noted in Algokit's documentation, running AlgoKit in a Windows environment requires Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2) or the Hyper-V backend for Docker. This ensures that Docker in Windows is running with a Linux kernel.

As for GitHub actions, there seem to be roundabout ways to run WSL-1, but this GitHub issue) suggests that WSL-1 is not supported in GitHub actions.

[gmalouf]

Closing this, it reads as a better fit for discussion on the Algokit repo.