Learning Windows Server Containers

Isolation technology

The Docker daemon has a very important option called -isolation, which is only applicable in a Windows environment. This option is used to specify the isolation to be used while creating the container. For example, for creating a Hyper-V Container hyperv should be used as the isolation value, as follows:

    docker run -d --isolation hyperv microsoft/nanoserver powershell

The other options available are default and process. The default option is the only supported value for containers running on Linux environments since Linux has only one type of isolation. The process option is the default value on Windows environment, which creates Windows Server Containers with namespace isolation.

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