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...and the crowd goes mild! Does anyone actually use Windows containers? How is it? I'm not the most connected person, but I really want to know who's actually

by robbyt 7y ago

...and the crowd goes mild! Does anyone actually use Windows containers? How is it? I'm not the most connected person, but I really want to know who's actually using this?

snagglegaggle 7y ago
I am not sure if it is kosher to say this, but my main use for Windows Server is as a desktop OS for when I need Windows. You can set up py-kms (https://github.com/SystemRage/py-kms https://github.com/SystemRage/py-kms) to activate it. The Server OS is extremely clean and devoid of all of the bloatware in normal Windows. I think the telemetry is still enabled and hard to disable, but it is slightly easier to do. In my case this is probably above board, I inherited some servers with valid Windows Server licenses.
rtempaccount1 7y ago
I do some work in the k8s arena. Seen a couple of large corps using Windows containers, either for containerizing legacy applications, or for moving an existing Windows platform into containers to help reduce cloud bills.
ticmasta 7y ago
The only legit use-case I've ever seen is "lift-and-shift" out of a self-hosted IIS environment to a container that can be hosted publicly. Now your business has a "SasS Offering"! We had MS in our office a few weeks ago and even they were steering people away from windows containers unless you really had no other choice...
carlsborg 7y ago
Test automation. Edge/IE.
cpitman 7y ago
I do consulting around Kubernetes, and many large enterprise clients are interested in Windows Containers. The usual culprit are .Net Framework applications that the customer has no interest in porting to .Net Core. I haven't actually seen a customer use Windows Containers in production yet, but with them becoming more stable I suspect we'll see more of it in the next year.
stetrain 7y ago
If you've got a mix of applications that can run on linux (for example .Net Core) and some that can't (.Net Framework) it lets you keep a similar pipeline for managing environments and deployments. I'm not using it in production yet, but I've been watching it for a couple of years as it becomes more stable. Still waiting on the next update (Windows 10 19H2) that lets you run windows containers build using older base versions on newer host OSes. Currently if the host and container image aren't the exact same version it will run in Hyper-V instead of as a light weight container.

by robbyt 7y ago

...and the crowd goes mild! Does anyone actually use Windows containers? How is it? I'm not the most connected person, but I really want to know who's actually using this?

snagglegaggle 7y ago

I am not sure if it is kosher to say this, but my main use for Windows Server is as a desktop OS for when I need Windows. You can set up py-kms (https://github.com/SystemRage/py-kms https://github.com/SystemRage/py-kms) to activate it. The Server OS is extremely clean and devoid of all of the bloatware in normal Windows. I think the telemetry is still enabled and hard to disable, but it is slightly easier to do. In my case this is probably above board, I inherited some servers with valid Windows Server licenses.

rtempaccount1 7y ago

I do some work in the k8s arena. Seen a couple of large corps using Windows containers, either for containerizing legacy applications, or for moving an existing Windows platform into containers to help reduce cloud bills.

ticmasta 7y ago

The only legit use-case I've ever seen is "lift-and-shift" out of a self-hosted IIS environment to a container that can be hosted publicly. Now your business has a "SasS Offering"! We had MS in our office a few weeks ago and even they were steering people away from windows containers unless you really had no other choice...

carlsborg 7y ago

Test automation. Edge/IE.

cpitman 7y ago

I do consulting around Kubernetes, and many large enterprise clients are interested in Windows Containers. The usual culprit are .Net Framework applications that the customer has no interest in porting to .Net Core. I haven't actually seen a customer use Windows Containers in production yet, but with them becoming more stable I suspect we'll see more of it in the next year.

stetrain 7y ago

If you've got a mix of applications that can run on linux (for example .Net Core) and some that can't (.Net Framework) it lets you keep a similar pipeline for managing environments and deployments. I'm not using it in production yet, but I've been watching it for a couple of years as it becomes more stable. Still waiting on the next update (Windows 10 19H2) that lets you run windows containers build using older base versions on newer host OSes. Currently if the host and container image aren't the exact same version it will run in Hyper-V instead of as a light weight container.