I love WSL, but I have multiple systems and juggling apt packages is a pain.

So I had this in my head for a long time, that I can just build a rootfs using docker and load it in WSL.

I tried it yesterday, and now I have a CLI tool to build my WSL image using Dockerfiles.

I'm not sure if it helps anyone, but I wanted to share it, just in case.

Cheers.

This is awesome! I was just today building a new wsl distro, and I didn’t want it tied to just a version of Linux but rather a project. I had to download a rootfs of Ubuntu and import it, and then spent time installing everything. Ofc I could use a bash script to automate the second part.

So this would have solved my prob: have a dockerfile or image and up an wsl env for it. Given how great wsl is these days (i used to have Linux and Mac as daily drivers, now wsl) I guess this sort of thing will become more and more relevant

Nice tool :) I did something similar in a hackathon some years ago. https://github.com/Rucadi/wsld

It's totally unmaintained and forgotten :D

In general, what I do now to generate WSL images is to docker run a container, and then export it to a .tar, finally, install that tar, is that easy.

However, if I had your tool installed, for sure I would use that for ease of use.

Very cool, this should help me to be able to separate my different testing environments.

Thanks for sharing!

looks cool! Forgive my ignorance, but what's the adv of this over using Docker on WSL2?

Thats a pretty nice thing to have!

Thanks for sharing this.