VMware PowerCLI 10.0 on Docker Hub

Last week I wrote about the release of VMware PowerCLI 10.0 and running it on Photon OS. After running through this exercise I thought it would be really useful to have a Docker container image with PowerCLI 10.0 already installed and published on Docker Hub. VMware has had a docker image for PowerCLI core available for a while now, but it’s not yet updated for PowerCLI 10.

For my docker container I’m using Microsoft’s PowerShell docker image, installing the VMware PowerCLI module, and doing some basic configuration. It installs some other common tools for PowerCLI, including PowervRA, vCheck, VMware’s Powershell sample scripts, and Vester. I have to thank VMware for their open source efforts and the existing PowerCLI Dockerfile since I copied a section from it to download the sample scripts. You can pull the PowerCLI 10.0 container image by running:

docker pull doogleit/powerclicore

Or check it out on Docker Hub. I’m hoping to start using containers for some of my PowerCLI work and would love to hear how others are planning to or already using it.