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Re:It's time to reconsider going on-prem by jodrellblank on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @11:15PM (#12698185)
We also have to run stuff on windows server as well. Docker won't fly in that kind of environment either. Microsoft still has large market share in enterprise yet and will for a long time.

Containers are built into Windows Server 2016, and they're powered by Docker. (or Hyper-V for full-VM containers).

https://blog.docker.com/2016/09/dockerforws2016/

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Re:It's time to reconsider going on-prem by agibsonccc on Thursday October 13, 2016 @01:43AM (#12698744)
No one is going to bet on containers in windows in production for at least a year or 2. And the ones that do will likely be "early adopters" even after a few years. Look no further than the companies trying to fork docker due to lack of stability: http://thenewstack.io/docker-fork-talk-split-now-table/

Ops wants predictable infrastructure. Customers want predicable applications.

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Re:It's time to reconsider going on-prem by drieddust on Thursday October 13, 2016 @12:53AM (#12698516)
Windows 2016 just became GA so it will still take some time for bugs to be smothered out. It addition to this running docker containers inside a windows 2016 VM does not help as you are still end up running static VMs.

Unless cloud providers offering ability to run Windows containers directly on the cloud platform, there are no efficiency gains.

[1]https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/hybridcloud/2016/10/12/a...

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