Continental setup WSL 2 with Proxy, with Docker install
Created: 02 Dec 2022, 03:37 PM | Modified: =dateformat(this.file.mtime,"dd MMM yyyy, hh:mm a")
Tags: knowledge, unix
Go to “Turn Windows features on and off”
Scroll down list to “Windows Subsystem for Linux” and “Virtual Machine Platform” and select it if it’s unselected. Please note that this step requires a system restart.
In cmd:
wsl —set-default-version 2
wsl —install -d Ubuntu
wsl -l -v
Should see:

Connectivity via VPN
In case you have a VPN client installed, your WSL VM will not have access to the internet. Therefore, it is required to provide network connectivity (WSL’s acces to the network may be missing, even if VPN status is “Disconnected”). There is a solution provided here:GitHub - sakai135/wsl-vpnkit: Provide network connectivity to WSL 2 when blocked by VPN. Please follow the installation instructions.
Now, when you execute the command wsl —list, you should have something like this:
Windows-Subsystem für Linux-Distributionen:
Ubuntu (Standard)
wsl-vpnkit
Since the documentation of the WSL VPNKit is not so clear: you have to start the distribution (here Ubuntu) and add the following to~/.bashrc:
# enable host VPN for WSL
wsl.exe -d wsl-vpnkit service wsl-vpnkit start
This will automatically enable the network connectivity through VPN for this distribution.
Deploy Conti CA Certificates
- Copy CRT files from https://github.geo.conti.de/ADAS-Machine-Learning/dldi-ansible-infrastructure/tree/master/inventories/production/files/cacertsto**/usr/local/share/ca-certificates**(as root).

- Update Certs
sudo apt install ca-certificates
sudo update-ca-certificates
update
$ sudo nano /etc/environment
PATH=“/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games”
http_proxy=“http://sia-proxy-basic.geo.conti.de:3128”
https_proxy=“http://sia-proxy-basic.geo.conti.de:3128”
no_proxy=localhost,127.0.0.1,10.,.conti.de,.contiwan.com,conti.de,contiwan.com,eu.artifactory.conti.de,eu-test.artifactory.conti.de,github.conti.de
See https://connext.conti.de/wikis/home?lang=en-us#!/wiki/W599b200efaef_4700_9ca0_22456921e5ef/page/acc3de0d-80d9-4899-a864-dee3b8fa4d31 for proxy details
Then call
$ set -a; source /etc/environment; set +a;
Then exit wsl distro, call wsl —shutdown, and restart wsl
Test with wget google.com
Should respond with some index.html
Then install docker with
*#/bin/bash*
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install
ca-certificates
curl
gnupg
lsb-release
sudo mkdir -p /etc/apt/keyrings
curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo gpg —dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg
echo
“deb [arch=$(dpkg —print-architecture) signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu
$(lsb_release -cs) stable” | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-compose-plugin
docker run hello-world
Copy this file into ~/.docker (not needed for WSL! Needed for new account in googoo/dreamcore/aftershock)
<<config.json>>
{
“proxies”:
{
“default”:
{
“httpProxy”: “http://localhost:3128”,
“httpsProxy”: “http://localhost:3128”,
“noProxy”: “.conti.de,127.0.0.0/8,localhost,10.*,.contiwan.com”
}
}
}
Add user to docker group
sudo usermod -a -G docker <user_name>
Every startup must call -
sudo service docker start
Test with
docker run hello-world
Set Docker to start on boot
#Windows 11 version
sudo su -
sudo touch /etc/wsl.conf
sudo chmod 777 /etc/wsl.conf
sudo echo "[boot]
command="/etc/init.d/docker start"" > /etc/wsl.conf
You might setup some more suitable permissions than chmod 777, chmod was only given to ensure the test works
#If in Windows 10 echo "
NonInsidersVersion
if service docker status 2>&1 | grep -q “is not running”; then wsl.exe -d ”${WSL_DISTRO_NAME}” -u root -e /usr/sbin/service docker start >/dev/null 2>&1 fi” >> ~/.profile
From <https://securecloud.blog/2021/12/07/wsl2-use-docker-with-vscode-without-docker-desktop/>