Windows Server 2019 Administration Fundamentals - Second Edition

Support for Docker containers

As you may know, Microsoft recommends that every client/server application shall run on a dedicated server. If in the traditional deployment approach, this would require a single physical server for each application; in the virtualized deployment approach, each application requires its own Virtual Machine (VM). By contrast, the container deployment approach (see Figure 2.8) implies that the operating system on the host is shared among the applications. In that way, a container enables the application to run in its own isolated environment with no knowledge of any other applications being executed outside its container.

As was the case with Kubernetes (see the Support for Kubernetes section), Docker has similarly  ...