Is it possible to add Active Directory to a windows container?

At my company we're currently developing a product which will eventually support authentication via OpenLDAP and Active Directory. We have configured a Windows Server 2016 and would like to create an isolated environment via windows containers to test our app in.

Unfortunately I am hitting a wall when it comes to installing/enabling the AD feature in the container. The error I'm receiving is:

Add-WindowsFeature : The request to add or remove features on the specified server failed.
The operation cannot be completed, because the server that you specified requires a restart.
At line:1 char:1
+ Add-WindowsFeature AD-Domain-Services
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo          : DeviceError: (@{Vhd=; Credent...Name=localhost}:PSObject) [Install-WindowsFeature], Exception
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : DISMAPI_Error__Failed_Reboot_Required,Microsoft.Windows.ServerManager.Commands.AddWindowsFeatureCommand

Am I missing something or is this just not working?

This is my Dockerfile

FROM microsoft/windowsservercore

RUN powershell Get-WindowsFeature
RUN powershell -Command Add-WindowsFeature AD-Domain-Services 

Full build log:

PS C:\windows-ad> docker build --no-cache -t win-test .
Sending build context to Docker daemon   2.56kB
Step 1/3 : FROM microsoft/windowsservercore
 ---> be84290c2315
Step 2/3 : RUN powershell Get-WindowsFeature
 ---> Running in 5e5f83bb2c86

Display Name                                            Name
------------                                            ----
[ ] Active Directory Certificate Services               AD-Certificate
    [ ] Certification Authority                         ADCS-Cert-Authority
    [ ] Certificate Enrollment Policy Web Service       ADCS-Enroll-Web-Pol
    [ ] Certificate Enrollment Web Service              ADCS-Enroll-Web-Svc
    [ ] Certification Authority Web Enrollment          ADCS-Web-Enrollment
    [ ] Network Device Enrollment Service               ADCS-Device-Enrollment
    [ ] Online Responder                                ADCS-Online-Cert
[ ] Active Directory Domain Services                    AD-Domain-Services
[ ] Active Directory Federation Services                ADFS-Federation
[ ] Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services     ADLDS
[ ] Active Directory Rights Management Services         ADRMS
    [ ] Active Directory Rights Management Server       ADRMS-Server
    [ ] Identity Federation Support                     ADRMS-Identity
[ ] Device Health Attestation                           DeviceHealthAttestat...
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[ ] DNS Server                                          DNS
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        [ ] IIS Management Scripts and Tools            Web-Scripting-Tools
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[ ] Windows Server Essentials Experience                ServerEssentialsRole
[ ] Windows Server Update Services                      UpdateServices
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    [ ] WSUS Services                                   UpdateServices-Services
    [ ] SQL Server Connectivity                         UpdateServices-DB
[ ] .NET Framework 3.5 Features                         NET-Framework-Features
    [ ] .NET Framework 3.5 (includes .NET 2.0 and 3.0)  NET-Framework-Core
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        [X] TCP Port Sharing                            NET-WCF-TCP-PortShar...
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[ ] Failover Clustering                                 Failover-Clustering
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[ ] Host Guardian Hyper-V Support                       HostGuardian
[ ] I/O Quality of Service                              DiskIo-QoS
[ ] IIS Hostable Web Core                               Web-WHC
[ ] IP Address Management (IPAM) Server                 IPAM
[ ] iSNS Server service                                 ISNS
[ ] Management OData IIS Extension                      ManagementOdata
[ ] Media Foundation                                    Server-Media-Foundation
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[ ] MultiPoint Connector                                MultiPoint-Connector
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[ ] Peer Name Resolution Protocol                       PNRP
[ ] Quality Windows Audio Video Experience              qWave
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        [ ] DNS Server Tools                            RSAT-DNS-Server
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[ ] RPC over HTTP Proxy                                 RPC-over-HTTP-Proxy
[ ] Setup and Boot Event Collection                     Setup-and-Boot-Event...
[ ] Simple TCP/IP Services                              Simple-TCPIP
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[ ] SNMP Service                                        SNMP-Service
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[ ] Storage Replica                                     Storage-Replica
[ ] Telnet Client                                       Telnet-Client
[ ] VM Shielding Tools for Fabric Management            FabricShieldedTools
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[ ] Windows Internal Database                           Windows-Internal-Dat...
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[ ] Windows Process Activation Service                  WAS
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[ ] Windows Server Backup                               Windows-Server-Backup
[ ] Windows Server Migration Tools                      Migration
[ ] Windows Standards-Based Storage Management          WindowsStorageManage...
[ ] WinRM IIS Extension                                 WinRM-IIS-Ext
[ ] WINS Server                                         WINS
[X] WoW64 Support                                       WoW64-Support


 ---> b891a0f5b277
Removing intermediate container 5e5f83bb2c86
Step 3/3 : RUN powershell -Command Add-WindowsFeature AD-Domain-Services
 ---> Running in 22724bfb2ee4
Add-WindowsFeature : The request to add or remove features on the specified
server failed.
The operation cannot be completed, because the server that you specified
requires a restart.
At line:1 char:1
+ Add-WindowsFeature AD-Domain-Services
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : DeviceError: (@{Vhd=; Credent...Name=localhost}:
   PSObject) [Install-WindowsFeature], Exception
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : DISMAPI_Error__Failed_Reboot_Required,Microsoft.
   Windows.ServerManager.Commands.AddWindowsFeatureCommand

Success Restart Needed Exit Code      Feature Result
------- -------------- ---------      --------------
False   No             Failed         {}


The command 'cmd /S /C powershell -Command Add-WindowsFeature AD-Domain-Services' returned a non-zero code: 1

Windows Containers do not ship with Active Directory support and due to their nature can’t (yet) act as a full-fledged domain joined objects, but a certain level of Active Directory functionality can be supported through the use of 'group Managed Service Accounts' (gMSA).

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowscontainers/manage-containers/manage-serviceaccounts