If you want to run your first Docker Windows Server container, you need to first install the required roles and features, and then pull the container.

I need to use Linux containers for a build. From using Docker for Windows on Windows 10 Pro I knew you can switch the container type in the GUI. Searching for a way to do it via command line lead m ...

Absolutely the same issue on Docker Desktop v. 4.42.1 where no possibility to switch on Windows containers from either tray icon popup menu nor with command line.

In this post I am going to show step by step how to install a local version of Windows Server 2016 TP5 in Hyper-V and how to configure it to be a container host. It is still not straight forward to ...

If Docker Desktop is starting forever in Windows 11, switch to Windows containers and update WSL kernel. Other than that, you can follow these fixes.

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

Docker containers are their own specific thing, and while Windows Server containers act like Docker containers in their ability to share but isolate — which is why I have referred to them as ...

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

Once the Windows containers have been enabled, you’ll need to download and install the Docker Engine and Docker client, and install the base images you’ll need to configure for your application.