Is containerd a practical production choice for Windows Server containers?
A client requires our software to run on Windows Server 2022 or newer. The application is written in Go and is currently packaged for Linux with Docker Compose…
Windows containers
What’s the best way to self-host a private container registry for Windows customers?
My company maintains five applications for many customers, and deployments are currently handled by copying build files to each customer's Windows server over Remote Desktop. I'd like to…
What’s a good self-hosted container registry and deployment setup for Windows customers?
My company runs five applications for many customers, and deployments are currently painful because we manually copy build files to each customer's server over remote desktop. I'd like…
Why doesn’t Azure Container Apps support Windows containers yet?
Does anyone know the technical or business reasons Azure Container Apps still doesn't support Windows containers? Both Windows containers and managed container platforms have been around for years,…
Can Older Versions of Microsoft Office Run in a Docker Container?
Does anyone know a practical way to run a pre-365 version of Microsoft Office inside a Docker container? The host system could be Linux or Windows; I'm mainly…
Can Microsoft Office Run in a Docker Container?
Is there a practical way to run older versions of Microsoft Office, rather than Microsoft 365, inside a Docker container? The goal is to use Office applications from…
Why Does Docker on Windows Use a Linux VM?
My understanding is that Docker Desktop on Windows often runs Linux containers inside a lightweight Linux VM through WSL2 or Hyper-V. If Windows Server can run without a…
Why Does My Oracle 19c Windows Container Randomly Lose Access to Its Files?
I'm building an Oracle Database 19c image on Windows Server Core 2019 using Windows containers. The Docker build completes successfully and the image may work at first, but…
Has anyone successfully added a Windows node to a self-hosted Kubernetes setup?
I attempted to set up a Windows Server 2022 VM in Proxmox to function as a Windows node in my Kubernetes cluster, but I'm facing various issues. I'm…
Anyone Successfully Added a Windows Node to Self-Hosted Kubernetes?
I'm trying to add a Windows Server 2022 VM as a node in my self-hosted Kubernetes cluster, but I keep running into issues. I want to deploy some…