Windows Server 2016およびWindows 10バージョン1607からはWindowsにも正式に対応しましたが、Dockerのコンテナ技術はLinuxが大きく先行しています。

2017年、彼らはSwarmを使った同じDocker Enterprise環境で Windows ServerとLinuxクラスタの混在 の管理のサポートを追加した。

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.

Linux containers started the trend using Docker container technology, but now Windows containers adds another option.

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

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.

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

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 ...