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posted by janrinok on Sunday November 26 2017, @09:44PM   Printer-friendly
from the sort-of-convergence dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Experimental support for Microsoft's Linux containers on Windows (LCOW) feature has been available for Windows Server 1709 via the Docker EE "Preview" release. The same functionality is now available for Windows 10 Fall Creators Update with the release of Docker for Windows 17.11. In fact, it's been available since Docker for Windows 17.10.

That's right. Docker for Windows can run Linux or Windows containers, with support for Linux containers via a Hyper-V Moby Linux VM (as of Docker for Windows 17.10 this VM is based on LinuxKit).

When configured to use Linux containers for Windows, try running a simple Linux container:

When disabled, the existing options for switching between traditional Docker for Windows Linux containers and Windows containers will be available in the whale systray icon.

The LCOW feature is under active development.


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  • (Score: 2) by meustrus on Monday November 27 2017, @05:01PM

    by meustrus (4961) on Monday November 27 2017, @05:01PM (#602108)

    Plenty of corporate environments still use Windows as the base OS. Microsoft's enterprise management tools are the One Way to manage authentication, sharing, and communication in many places. So you may not have a choice of OS on your developer workstation, even if your software is going to run exclusively in Linux.

    The idea here isn't that you are going to run a Docker environment to get a Linux workstation inside Windows. You could already do that with VirtualBox, sans Docker. What this does is let you debug your Linux Docker container on your local workstation (which is locked to Windows because of your enterprise) before shipping it to the cloud.

    In short, Linux containers running on Windows is great for cloud developers that are forced by the enterprise to run Windows.

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