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Re:Docker and Microsoft announce more innovation to cross pl... by megaman821 on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @05:10PM (#9767829)
What is this multiplatform container application they talk about? Is it a Hyper-V container with small Linux runtime? Or a docker-compose file with some containers running on Windows and some on Linux (e.g. ASP.NET on Windows and Redis on Linux)?
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Re:Docker and Microsoft announce more innovation to cross pl... by CoreySanders on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @05:33PM (#9767977)
Great question. Because the containers pull from the underlying host operating system, you will be able to deploy a Windows Server Container on a Windows Server host but you cannot deploy a Linux container on a Windows Server host (and vice versa).

However, you can run either a Windows VM or a Linux VM on Hyper-V (or in Azure).

Also, you can now run .NET applications on Windows or Linux. But that is a bit orthogonal to your question. :)

Hopefully that helps.

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