With LinuxKit, Docker has both a toolkit for creating lightweight Linux containers and a tiny Linux container for operating systems, such as macOS and Windows, which don't have built-in Linux.

With this release, Microsoft is not positioning Windows Server Containers as an outright competitor to the Docker container, but rather as a complementary technology.

Microsoft has integrated Docker Engine - a popualr application container management platform into its Windows Server 2016 release.

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.

A critical vulnerability in Docker Desktop for Windows and macOS allows compromising the host by running a malicious container, even if the Enhanced Container Isolation (ECI) protection is active.

In perhaps its greatest embrace of the open source Linux community to date, Microsoft is teaming up with Docker to develop Docker containers that will run on the next version of Windows Server ...

Microsoft this week announced that a new type of Linux container that runs on Windows Server 2016 will be coming soon.

As Microsoft notes, the Docker Engine for Windows Server will be developed with the support of the Docker open-source community and Microsoft will participate there as an active community member.

News briefs for June 19, 2019. The development team over at Docker is porting their container platform to Microsoft's Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL 2) It looks as if pretty soon, Docker ...