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.

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

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 ...

This diagram from a Docker blog post in late October, illustrates how Linux and Windows containers could co-exist on one Windows Server. CS Docker Engine stands for Commercially Supported Docker ...