> Do people actually run Windows containers successfully? Yes, it's been done. Cloud Foundry has done it for a while and Kubernetes can do it as well. It's no

> Do people actually run Windows containers successfully? Yes, it's been done. Cloud Foundry has done it for a while and Kubernetes can do it as well. It's not easy. Earlier versions of Windows didn't expose APIs suitable for partitioning resources and information in the sense that we think of as containers, so a great deal of hackery was needed to sorta-kinda-but-not-really recreate the experience. Later versions were better, but still lots of hackery was required. In my understanding it's only the latest versions of Windows that make it possible to "containerise" on par with Linux. Part of the difficulty has been that there's a very long lag between "we need Windows to do X", to "Windows version 4000 now achieves X", to discovering that actually it doesn't really do X, to "Windows 5000 now achieves Y", to "and customers have actually installed it and retired Windows 3000 and 4000". That loop can be more than a decade and it imposes enormous overheads onto anyone proposing to support Windows containerisation as a platform capability. Meanwhile in Linux-land, stuff lands in the kernel much sooner and arrives in release-ready form much sooner. What I've seen (anecdotally) is that there is a sudden step change in Microsoft platforms from .NET to .NET Core. Folks want containers, badly, and Core gets them there with much less fuss.