Let's set up pie hole on Windows.

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Pi-hole http://10.0.0.203/admin/ ↗

Why it worked

The video provides a clear, step-by-step tutorial on setting up a popular network utility (Pi-hole) on a common operating system (Windows) using readily available tools (WSL and Docker). This practical, problem-solving content appeals to a technical audience looking for specific solutions.

Summary

This video demonstrates how to set up Pi-hole on Windows 11 using Docker. It covers installing WSL, Docker Desktop, pulling the Pi-hole image, configuring ports and volumes, and finally accessing the Pi-hole admin interface.

Structure

1Install WSL
2Install Docker Desktop
3Search and pull Pi-hole image
4Run Pi-hole container with port and volume configuration
5Access Pi-hole admin interface

Product placement

The video shows the installation and configuration of Pi-hole using Docker Desktop on Windows.

Call to action

We can now either set our router DNS to this IP or we can assign this IP as our DNS to our devices individually.

Original caption

Replying to @Nazaire Files setting up pi hole on windows. #docker #pihole #itsalwaysdns #dns

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Pi Hole on Windows 11 Reply to Nazaire Files's comment how do you set up the first one Pi WSL WSL = Windows subsystem for Linux Command Prompt Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.26100.4351] (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. C:\Users\PJ> C:\Users\PJ>wsl --install Downloading: Ubuntu 5.3% 25.8% 55.3% C:\WINDOWS\System32\wsl.exe Provisioning the new WSL instance Ubuntu This might take a while... Create a default Unix user account: pj New password: Retype new password: Password: password updated successfully To run a command as administrator (user "root"), use "sudo <command>". See "man sudo_root" for details. Welcome to Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS (GNU/Linux 5.15.167.4-microsoft-standard-WSL2 x86_64) * Documentation: https://help.ubuntu.com * Management: https://landscape.canonical.com * Support: https://ubuntu.com/pro System information as of Thu Jul 3 11:47:57 PDT 2025 System load: 0.0 Processes: 31 Usage of /: 0.1% of 1006.85GB Users logged in: 0 Memory usage/: 20% IPv4 address for eth0: 172.17.197.254 Swap usage/: 0% This message is shown once a day. To disable it please create the /home/pj/.hushlogin file. pj@PJ-PC:~$

Transcript

Let's set up pie hole on Windows. First, open command prompt and run this command. Once the install is complete, reboot your computer. Next, run the WSL app we just installed and create a user. Next, we need to install Docker for desktop. We can install it directly from Docker's website. Once the install is complete, reboot your computer. One last time. Let's open the docker desktop app and once we get to the main screen type in pie hole in the search bar. We're going to choose the first option that appears in click pull. Then we will go to images to verify our image was pulled successfully. We will then click the run button. Here I will just enter the default ports. For the host path, I will create a folder in my documents directory called Pihole and use that. Click run. Once it's finished, you'll want to scroll up and save the password that was generated. Save this to your clipboard. Open a browser window and in the search bar, enter your computer's IP and add forward/admin to the end. Paste in the password we copied from earlier and we're done. We can now either set our router DNS to this IP or we can assign this IP as our DNS to our devices individually.