Preparing Windows Server Technical Preview for Windows Containers

Re:Preparing Windows Server Technical Preview for Windows Co... by UK-AL on Wednesday August 19, 2015 @06:29PM (#10088992)

Nicely integrated infrastructure? AD integration etc?

Lack of choice to. Which sounds bad but can be good. For example Linux you have lots of webservers Apache. Nginx, tomcat all with different config methods.

Windows? Add the web server role, use iis and be done with it.

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Re:Preparing Windows Server Technical Preview for Windows Co... by teh_klev on Wednesday August 19, 2015 @10:16PM (#10089701)

> Lack of choice to[o].

You can run Apache and Tomcat on windows if you so choose. You can even run nginx (albeit on top of Cygwin) [0].

You also don't need IIS to run HTTP endpoints. That said, IIS7+ is a pretty nice web server (I speak from experience as a shared web hoster ops and dev person). It's got a plethora of knobs and dials for tuning and is extensible (via native or managed code modules and handlers). But as always, horses for courses and all that.

[0]: http://kevinworthington.com/nginx-for-windows/

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Re:Preparing Windows Server Technical Preview for Windows Co... by scooley on Thursday August 20, 2015 @02:53PM (#10093857)

Confirming nginx works in Windows -- nginx for our QuickStart guides: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowsconta...

IIS is great too and in-box. It's nice having smart defaults but a lot of options.

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Re:Preparing Windows Server Technical Preview for Windows Co... by UK-AL on Thursday August 20, 2015 @04:29AM (#10090564)

I'm not saying you can't run it. It's just that IIS is the default.

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