Windows Server 2019 Core install fonts

Microsoft nuked all the fonts except for Arial in Server 2019 core (see eg. https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-releases-new-windows-server-2019-insider-and-sdk-preview-builds).

Makes sense and everyone seems to say "it's easy to add back". But how exactly do I go about adding them back? Using Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -online -FeatureName ServerCoreFonts-NonCritical-Fonts-TrueType -all fails because I have no Windows install disk (I guess, error is "The source files could not be found"). Seems a bit dated that I should need to mount a iso file to install some font packs (and a total mess to do in a Compose file).. How to solve this?

As a background, we are running a buildserver that we just updated from Server 2016 to a Server 2019 container and it turns out we have some PDF creation tests that depends on Fonts being installed...

Solution 1:

You don't, only Arial in a Core container. Use the full windows base image.

From the source blog post for build 17677:

For Server Core containers, only the default font, Arial, is supported; no other fonts are supported, and no others can be installed.