[AaronFriel]

> To build and run a Windows container, a Windows system is required. While the Docker tools, control APIs and image formats are the same on Windows and Linux, a Docker Windows container won’t run on a Linux system and vice-versa.

No, this is for running containers using the Windows kernel.

Although with the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), I wonder how long until Windows Server supports running Linux containers.

[nathanaldensr]

I just wonder about the utility of all this. Most people should be trying to target .NET Standard/.NET Core and simply run their apps on Linux, meaning they can use regular Linux distributions with Docker installed. Who is Microsoft expecting to actually use Docker on Windows?

EDIT: I'll answer my own question and say that this is probably targeted toward shops that rely on a Microsoft stack (e.g., full .NET Framework, SQL Server, etc.) Running Docker on Windows and getting fully-configured environments should be a big boon to productivity for these folks.

[UK-AL]

99% of .net apps don't run on Linux yet.

[ihsw]

Bump that up to 99.99% and you'd be right.

There are a lot of big .Net heavy-duty apps that are wedded to Windows.

[tracker1]

There are a lot of legacy apps, and third party components that use bits of .Net that aren't in core (or mono), and unlikely to ever be there.

[ManoMarks]

Using Docker you can already run Linux containers on Windows, using native virtualization in Hyper-V. You are correct however this announcement is specifically about windows containers.