[gtirloni]

If they keep improving the Linux subsystem in the Windows kernel and it starts offering a complete POSIX layer (i.e. the syscalls we expect in a Linux system), then one day the Linux-based Docker images could run unmodified.

[tracker1]

It's probable this preview is actually using the Linux Subsystem, which is fairly complete... And it makes sense.. it also makes a lot of sense in terms of the direction that .Net core has been taking, so that they can be deployed under Linux docker containers more easily.

Although I find a lot of the Azure services a bit too low-level, it's been very easy to build simpler interfaces on top of them, and get a lot done quickly. If this is anywhere near as nice on Azure as what the Joyent cloud's docker support looks like, it could be very interesting indeed.