open QEMU download page and download it. 32-bit or 64-bit depends on your windows version.

Install it and make sure you added it to your windows PATH ENV variable.

open Alpine Linux download page and download the extended image.

create a specific folder (eg : c:/docker) to store all of your docker files.

use this command to create qcow image

qemu-img create -f qcow2 alpine.qcow2 16G

use this command to run QEMU. make sure you change :

• architecture (32-bit / 64-bit)
• alpine image
• alpine.qcow2

qemu-system-x86_64.exe -cdrom alpine-extended-3.8.2-x86_64.iso -m 2048 .\alpine.qcow2 -net user,hostfwd=tcp::2222-:22 -net nic

log in with username "root" .  then , install Alpine Linux by running command "setup-alpine" . just follow the instructions.

you can refer to Alpine Linux Installation guide

tips : when asked about about sys, data, etc , choose "sys" because it's the traditional hard disk install.

install docker with the command below.  make sure "Community" Repository were enabled before running the command.

apk add docker
rc-update add docker boot
service docker start

To install docker compose , follow the command below . if "pip install docker-compose" failed, upgrade your pip. the update command is shown as a warning/yellow message.

apk add py-pip
apk add python-dev libffi-dev openssl-dev gcc libc-dev make
pip install docker-compose

you can refer to Alpine Linux installing Docker Guide