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No definitely not. In fact to this day containers only run on Linux. Your Mac or PC just runs a Linux VM in order to be able to run any containers. Containers
by DrBenCarson 4y ago
No definitely not. In fact to this day containers only run on Linux. Your Mac or PC just runs a Linux VM in order to be able to run any containers.
Containers are not meant to make anything OS-agnostic. Containers are just a way of running Linux
- jiggawatts 4y agoNot quite true: Windows containers run natively on Windows. As of Windows 11, even Server 2022 containers can run using process isolation. Something hilarious to me is that "multi-arch" images are a thing, and can result in the same dockerfile building a Windows image on a Windows PC, and a Linux image on a Linux PC!
- sneak 4y agoThis is a red herring and this feature only exists as a Microsoft platform strategy. I don’t know of anyone real using Windows executable docker containers on Windows hosts. dockerd for windows isn’t even free software, last I looked.