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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 DannyB on Monday November 27 2017, @04:58PM (1 child)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Monday November 27 2017, @04:58PM (#602106) Journal

    Microsoft thinks it can sell this to the decision makers. By offering them discounts such that using Windows would be only triple the cost of using Linux.

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  • (Score: 2) by RamiK on Wednesday November 29 2017, @12:16AM

    by RamiK (1813) on Wednesday November 29 2017, @12:16AM (#602753)

    But that's what Hyper-V Docker containers already offered. Going through the WSL only hurts security by removing the isolation while laboring Microsoft's engineering staff with maintaining, optimizing and securing yet another, foreign API layer. They're literally adding nothing new to their product portfolio...

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