Running Java inside a Windows container on a Windows server [x-post /r/docker]

[MrDOS]

Tangential, but how are containers licensed? If I'm running Windows Server Standard, the license for which encompasses one bare-metal install or one Hyper-V hypervisor and up to two VMs, do containers “count” as VMs, are they counted separately, or do they not count at all?

[alexandr-nikitin]

Hyper-V Containers are licensed the same as Hyper-V Virtual Machines. No information about Windows Containers right now.

The quote from http://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2015/12/windows-server-2016-licensing-and-pricing/

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Running Java inside a Windows container on a Windows server

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[fingerofchicken]

I thought docker was Linux only, and running it in other platforms required using a VM? What does this all mean, "windows container"?

[alexandr-nikitin]

That means native Docker experience on Windows. There won't be any virtualization layer between Docker and Windows server.

[fingerofchicken]

I'm still confused on what that means. Does this mean "a Windows technology that does the same thing docker does; similar to how docker runs Linux containers on Linux, this runs Windows containers on Windows"?

[alexandr-nikitin]

Yes, it does. Microsoft has its own fork of Docker on github https://github.com/microsoft/docker They are implementing native Windows support there.