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Re:Docker and Microsoft partner to drive adoption of distrib... by cpuguy83 on Thursday October 16, 2014 @10:51AM (#8465186)
No, you will not be able to deploy a Linux app onto a Windows container, or vice-versa.

Containers share a kernel, this would make it impossible. However, with things like boot2docker (25MB Linux distro), this makes it really leight-weight/easy to deploy into a VM and run that way.

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