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To clarify, my understanding is that on Windows you will always need a VM to run Linux containers, but there will be (is?) native Windows containers. The dream

by Jare 8y ago

To clarify, my understanding is that on Windows you will always need a VM to run Linux containers, but there will be (is?) native Windows containers. The dream is that maybe one day WSL will fully support Linux containers without a vm, but I will be amazed if they can pull that off.

barrkel 8y ago
Well, if you think about it, they already have containers on Windows - the WSL is effectively a container for each distro install. Emulating Linux-level container APIs is also possible in principle.
- pknopf 8y ago
  It isn't really containerized, the same way Wine on Linux isn't. There is no isolation.
  - pjmlp 8y ago
    I have yet to bother with WSL as I am perfectly fine with Windows standard tooling, but it is built on top of Drawbridge, so it certainly has isolation in place.
cntainer 8y ago
Yep there is experimental support for native windows containers. (Not sure it it's still experimental as things move really fast in this space) As I remember you couldn't have windows and linux containers running at the same time so you needed to flip a switch in the docker config to chose one. I general I'm a linux guy but it would be really cool if they can get to a point in which you can run both windows and linux containers at the same time.
raesene9 8y ago
You can get Windows containers without VMs on Windows server 2016. the WSL with Linux containers apparently does work with the latest insider builds...