Appendix F. Compute environment running on Windows
This chapter includes:
- What Windows containers are and how they are different from Linux containers
- How to run Windows containers on Anthos and GKE clusters.
- Unique considerations for storage and networking in Anthos and GKE Windows environments.
F.1 Windows containers
To understand Windows containers, it’s important to first build an understanding of container technology. Containers are a lightweight packaging and isolation mechanism for running applications. Instead of virtualizing the hardware stack as with the virtual machine's approach, containers virtualize at the operating system level, with multiple containers running on top of the Operating System (OS) kernel directly. ...
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