Preface: Similar to this post, but need a windows specific solution.
I need to route traffic from a cluster of windows containers through another windows container within that same cluster. The goal is for the outbound traffic for those containers to route to the edge router under the same source IP which will allow existing routing policies to be applied which might differ from the host's IP routing policies. The container I want to route through will have its own static IP on the host's external network (via docker network create -d l2bridge ...).
One thing that will work is using network_mode: "service:router-container", however since the majority of my services expose the same port there will be port collisions and other unknown issues. For this reason (and others), I cannot specify different ports for these containers, w/o breaking existing infrastructure, therefore joining these containers to the same network (via network_mode) is not a workable solution for my situation.
I tried configuring RRAS on a server core container, however, I kept getting an error about source files which lead me down an unproductive rabbit hole (pointing Source to install.wim, etc).
PS C:\> Install-WindowsFeature RemoteAccess
Install-WindowsFeature : The request to add or remove features on the specified server failed.
Installation of one or more roles, role services, or features failed.
The source files could not be found.
Use the "Source" option to specify the location of the files that are required to restore the feature. For more
information on specifying a source location, see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=243077. Error: 0x800f081f
At line:1 char:1
+ Install-WindowsFeature RemoteAccess
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (@{Vhd=; Credent...Name=localhost}:PSObject) [Install-WindowsFeature],
Exception
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : DISMAPI_Error__Failed_To_Enable_Updates,Microsoft.Windows.ServerManager.Commands.AddWind
owsFeatureCommand
I also stooped down to trying to set up ICS but also ran into errors creating the com object. Tried copying over the relevant DLLs (C:\Windows\System32\hnet*.dll) but still couldn't get it to work.
PS C:\> regsvr32 hnetcfg.dll /s
PS C:\> $m = New-Object -ComObject HNetCfg.HNetShare
New-Object : Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000} failed
due to the following error: 80040154 Class not registered (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80040154 (REGDB_E_CLASSNOTREG)).
At line:1 char:6
+ $m = New-Object -ComObject HNetCfg.HNetShare
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : ResourceUnavailable: (:) [New-Object], COMException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : NoCOMClassIdentified,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.NewObjectCommand
Since I am using windows containers, I think I have a little bit less flexibility compared to using a linux container, so looking for a solution that will work within a windows container if possible.
Refer to my existing post (which was closed w/o explanation) for WHY I am needing to do this along with more details on my infrastructure.