Chapter 3

Installing Containers on Windows Server 2019

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Implementing Windows Server containers

Bullet Implementing Hyper-V containers

Bullet Installing Docker on Windows Server 2019

Bullet Testing your containers after Docker has been installed

Containers are a game-changing technology — especially for teams that have developers who need dynamic environments to work from. A developer can launch a container that supports the needs of her application within minutes, and many of the container images are purpose build with the various programming frameworks called out in the title of the container image.

Windows Server 2019 supports two variations on containers:

  • Windows container: The Windows container is the traditional container model. It’s fast, lightweight, and easy to use. The downside is that it shares the kernel with the host operating system (OS).
  • Hyper-V container: If you have a workload that requires different versions of the kernel, or highly secure workloads that can’t share a kernel, the Hyper-V container is the better choice. The Hyper-V container has a higher performance ...

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