All bets are off when you're dealing with Windows in the open source world, especially when it comes to something like Docker which was designed around the linu

All bets are off when you're dealing with Windows in the open source world, especially when it comes to something like Docker which was designed around the linux kernel and a unix-style perspective on systems. Docker's core strength is that it provides your applications with process, network, and filesystem isolation on an individual host. Applications are very sensitive to their host environment and before the popularity of containerization a lot of effort was spent ensuring that host machines were provisioned in a manner that made them capable of supporting application needs. Things could often get hairy when deploying multiple applications to the same host due to conflicting lib versions, network ports, environment variables, file permissions etc. Things could also become precarious when there was a need to manage rollbacks across dependency upgrades on the host. With docker (or a similar container solution), all of that pain is abstracted away, you don't have to think about the host machine at all, the container coddles your application so that it has a pristine working environment, conveniently configurable with environment variables.