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Re:Ask HN: Cross-platform free hosted CI server, with GitHub... by andymurd on Saturday October 03, 2015 @08:37PM (#10325965)
Look into wercker.com - it works with docker containers so cross-platform python should work OK. They have some blog posts about Windows support too.

It's currently free whilst in beta but I guess they expect to charge eventually.

I'm not affiliated with them in any way but I have been happily using the service (testing Node & Python on Linux) for almost a year.

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Re:Ask HN: Cross-platform free hosted CI server, with GitHub... by bendtherules on Sunday October 04, 2015 @01:12AM (#10326555)
But how can they run windows images on top of docker?

I was looking for something like that, but didnt think it was possible.

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Re:Ask HN: Cross-platform free hosted CI server, with GitHub... by andymurd on Sunday October 04, 2015 @08:18PM (#10329357)
Some googling reveals that Docker should be able to run a Windows VM on a Linux host but I have no experience of this.

I would talk with the wercker guys about your requirements. They have a Slack channel and are very approachable.

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Re:Ask HN: Cross-platform free hosted CI server, with GitHub... by bendtherules on Monday October 05, 2015 @05:45AM (#10330752)
Can you give a link to where you get that information from?

All the places I read are talking about Linux and Windows containers on a Windows machine, but not windows containers on linux machine.

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Re:Ask HN: Cross-platform free hosted CI server, with GitHub... by andymurd on Monday October 05, 2015 @06:57AM (#10330971)
After further digging, I think you are correct (for now).

However that looks likely to change soon, as Microsoft certainly seems to drink the microservices kool-aid and want to mix and match Linux and Windows across hosts and tenants[1]. The Windows workloads will need to be architected specifically for containerisation.

[1] http://thenewstack.io/the-windows-and-linux-container-era-is...

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