[tdicola]

Looking forward to hearing more detail about how this works in the near future. I am curious though what are the plans to orchestrate and pull together multiple containers into an application, like Kubernetes, Mesos, CoreOS, etc? Is that coming in the Win 10 timeframe?

[shykes]

Yes, via the Docker-native orchestration tools: Swarm [1] and Compose [2].

[1] https://docs.docker.com/swarm/ [2] https://docs.docker.com/compose/

[CoreySanders]

Right on, Solomon. Here were some of the details on Azure and Windows Server support for Swarm and Compose (and Machine): http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2015/02/26/sunny-and-swarmy-...

[bboreham]

Am I confusing something? That looks like Linux guest support on a Windows Server host, which is rather different to the Windows Container topic of this thread.

[shykes]

I think that the goal was to show that Microsoft already supports the Docker orchestration stack with its current products - and in doing so is laying the groundwork for integrating future Windows containers into that same stack.

[justinsb]

Microsoft is working on Kubernetes support for Azure (along with the Kismatic people); and so I'd bet Kubernetes on Windows itself can't be far behind this announcement.

[Scuds]

Many things that appear in Windows Server were already running as part of Azure

[jacques_chester]

If you want a full PaaS, Cloud Foundry is currently implementing .NET app support as well.

Disclaimer: I work for Pivotal Labs, which is part of Pivotal, the main contributor to Cloud Foundry.