Why am I getting the "no matching manifest for windows/amd64" Error while running "docker pull mcr.microsoft.com/windows:1809"?

You are getting the "no matching manifest for windows/amd64" Error, because Microsoft did not provide any images to match the CPU architecture of "windows/amd64" of your hosting system.

One solution is to use some alternative images, like microsoft/dotnet-samples.

1. Pull microsoft/dotnet-samples:

C:\fyicenter> docker pull microsoft/dotnet-samples
Using default tag: latest
latest: Pulling from microsoft/dotnet-samples
Digest: sha256:06df3478be0269ceea4005c582780dc68fb9e3488462b193a7b9a2640c3563b3
Status: Downloaded newer image for microsoft/dotnet-samples:latest
docker.io/microsoft/dotnet-samples:latest

2. Review inspect the image configuration:

C:\fyicenter> docker inspect microsoft/dotnet-samples
[
    {
        "Id": "sha256:afca1083bf22e059e473bbdc90ea4ff1f61adae8901700f92ed6f53ff5582712",
        "RepoTags": [
            "microsoft/dotnet-samples:dotnetapp-nanoserver-sac2016",
            "microsoft/dotnet-samples:latest"
        ],
        "RepoDigests": [
            "microsoft/dotnet-samples@sha256:06df3478be0269ceea4005c582780dc68fb9e3488462b193a7b9a2640c3563b3",
            "microsoft/dotnet-samples@sha256:ee5034b7923e1ad2391775e768b2c6a9d00b91018510840ab95f61e4d20733e9"
        ],
        "Parent": "",
        "Comment": "",
        "Created": "2019-02-13T03:44:22.8952042Z",
...

Ok, we have find a good Windows Docker image that supports windows/amd64.

If you have trouble to pull any Windows Docker images, go check out this official Website: https://hub.docker.com/_/microsoft-windows-base-os-images.

⇒ "docker run microsoft/dotnet-samples" - Test Run

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⇑ Building Docker Images for Windows

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