For Docker lovers, Windows Server Containers can be managed from the Docker CLI, using the same commands currently used to create and run Docker containers on Linux.

Microsoft is building new container technologies into the next Windows Server release, enabling Dockerized applications to run on Windows Server on-premises or on Azure.

The next line in the Dockerfile, which starts with RUN, is telling Docker to run some PowerShell commands that turn on the Web-Server Windows feature and download ServiceMonitor.exe, which IIS ...

Patrick Lang, Windows Server's senior program manager, blogged that in the just released Windows Server, version 1709, Windows Insiders will be able to run Linux containers.

Unlike Docker, there are "no companion virtual machines running Linux, or anything like that at all," Boxer said. "It's just a native Windows application; you load it onto your server and you can ...

It is not an accident of timing that Microsoft is previewing its Docker-compatible containers as well as the forthcoming Nano Server chopped-down variant of Windows Server the day before the AWS ...

That’s going to change soon, however, as Microsoft today announced that it will add support for Docker to Windows Server in future releases.