Mastering Windows Server 2016

Windows Server Containers versus Hyper-V Containers

When Microsoft had people start testing and using containers, what they found is that many places were deploying only one container per VM. Well, that’s a little silly – sure they are getting the DevOps benefits out of using the container approach, but you aren’t getting any benefits out of the resource sharing and small footprint of a container. After doing a little digging, they discovered that companies were doing this because containers natively share kernel. While this is imperative to the performance of containers, this is a problem for isolation, and organizations were reluctant to deploy multiple containers within a single VM. So, Microsoft created a compromise.

When spinning up your containers, ...