I believe that mainstream docker development is in a much better place nowadays on windows, so it's worth a shot... That said, anecdotally: repeatedly for the

I believe that mainstream docker development is in a much better place nowadays on windows, so it's worth a shot... That said, anecdotally: repeatedly for the last 3ish years I've been running into docker-on-windows issues that have developed into complete showstoppers during development. This has repeateded across multiple projects and employers. I have an arms-length list of issues that are purely installation related, not even touching my code. I currently am using two dev machines with that had their Hyper-V installations irreparably broken because they were not US-EN windows, rendering them useless for most virtualization. "Full of surprises" is a nice way to put it :) In those intances, after burning a ton of time, I've landed on a simple conclusion: it is a _lot_ easier to get a VM on OS X to be windows than it is to get windows to pretend to be a competent POSIX environment. I am optimistic that windows will come around. I am hopeful their posix layer will work out, and their local bash shell will become nice, and the ecosystem will work. I have some faith that next-gen windows will handle this much better... From experience, though, and for my own projects and developers in 2017: if you want to do container development on windows, get a mac.