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Ask HN: Is Windows Server 2019 Serving Linux Containers Ready for Production?

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Re: Ask HN: Is Windows Server 2019 Serving Linux Containers Ready for Production?

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Post by Spooky23 »

A place I worked at a few years ago tried running HyperV for some use cases where it had licensing benefits. ~5000 VMs out of about 50000, mostly on VMWare.

At the time, the MS tooling was garbage, and we had a lot of operational networking issues. I would pay close attention to the tooling and the ops team capabilities.

If you need to use windows in prod, use Windows. Trying to get past a policy constraint with a hack like that ultimately isn’t a good idea for a variety of reasons. It’s not saving you money if the business breaks.

Re: Ask HN: Is Windows Server 2019 Serving Linux Containers Ready for Production?

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Post by portoal »

speedgoose wrote: post #3

If your company only wants windows for production, why would Linux containers be approved? Is it a tentative to circumvent the rule?

Linux containers have been created to deploy onto Azure. Currently looking what options we have to deploy on-premise, preferably we could just deploy Linux containers.

Azure Stack Hub is the perfect choice here, but we haven't started down this path yet.

Re: Ask HN: Is Windows Server 2019 Serving Linux Containers Ready for Production?

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Post by portoal »

throwawayboise wrote: post #8
speedgoose wrote: post #3

If your company only wants windows for production, why would Linux containers be approved? Is it a tentative to circumvent the rule?

I could imagine it is. If the company policy is "everything must run on Windows servers" well then you can argue that your linux container is running "on Windows"

Exactly the line of thinking...the linux containers are just "applications"

Re: Ask HN: Is Windows Server 2019 Serving Linux Containers Ready for Production?

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Post by portoal »

staticautomatic wrote: post #4

I’m in this same spot right now doing government contracting with only Windows server approved. On top of that open source software is only allowed if it’s “supported”. Between Anaconda Commercial and Windows, the universe of tooling is crazy small. All kinds of thing I’m used to are in this “runs on windows but isn’t officially supported and not a great choice for production” purgatory. I’m running flask through CGI…

Wow...interesting and understandable in Enterprise land, where support is mandatory

Re: Ask HN: Is Windows Server 2019 Serving Linux Containers Ready for Production?

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Post by getcrunk »

portoal wrote: post #15
getcrunk wrote: post #6

Hyper v works to serve Linux vms. You should always test your particular use case before committing. They have trial licenses.

Yup, but after pondering it, makes NO technical sense to do it..we'll test and see.

Hey I hate windows. To me It makes no "technical" sense to deploy anything Microsoft makes.

There's other reasons it makes sense lol (practical, ease of use, startup cost)

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