docker daemon switch to linux containers

Windows Server Containers run directly on the Windows Server OS and they’re more lightweight than Hyper-V Containers. Windows Server 2016 supports two types of containers: Windows Server Containers and Hyper-V Containers. Windows Server Containers can be used to rapidly deploy applications to Windows Server systems. In addition, containers are more easily updated than a VM, enabling businesses to have a more rapid release cycle. Containers essentially virtualize at the OS level, which makes them far more lightweight than VMs that virtualize at the hardware level. Support for containers opens the door for organizations to build modern, cloud-scale applications, those that are Windows-based and open source, portable across servers, virtual machines (VMs) and clouds.Įven though container technology has been part of Linux or some time, its addition to Windows Server is entirely new with Windows Server 2016 TP4 and updated in TP5.

One of the key breakthroughs that will transform Microsoft’s server OS into a next-generation cloud platform is the ability to run proprietary and open source containers in the next version of Windows Server.

This is a synopsis of an article published in Redmond magazine in June 2016 read the full article via the link below.

Docker daemon switch to linux containers