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by hinkley 3517 days ago
Microsoft gave a big pile of cash to Docker to figure out how to make Windows based Docker images.

I haven't been following it closely so I don't know what's become of it since then, but if you want IE you're going to need that work.

For other browsers, the Selenium team maintains docker images containing all of the drivers and XVFB code to make them run. They even have a debug image with xvnc on it so you can spy on the browser if something is going wrong.

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> Microsoft gave a big pile of cash to Docker to figure out how to make Windows based Docker images.

Actually Microsoft has been contributing quite a bit to the OCI (Open Container Initiative), as well as Docker. So they have been putting in the work. I'm not really partial to Microsoft, but they do have some good engineers that are working on free software.