Microsoft announces Hyper-V Containers

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Post by swernli » Wed, Apr 08, 2015, 5:25 PM UTC

Microsoft announces Hyper-V Containers
azure.microsoft.com

Re: Microsoft announces Hyper-V Containers

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Post by tdicola » Wed, Apr 08, 2015, 5:45 PM UTC

Looking forward to hearing more detail about how this works in the near future. I am curious though what are the plans to orchestrate and pull together multiple containers into an application, like Kubernetes, Mesos, CoreOS, etc? Is that coming in the Win 10 timeframe?

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Post by nickstinemates » Wed, Apr 08, 2015, 5:49 PM UTC

Really happy with how this all came together. Congrats Windows team.

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Post by sudioStudio64 » Wed, Apr 08, 2015, 5:50 PM UTC

REALLY looking forward to this. We've needed container style deployments on Windows forever. This is actually going to make my life better...at least this part, anyway.

Re: Microsoft announces Hyper-V Containers

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Post by justinsb » Wed, Apr 08, 2015, 5:52 PM UTC

Anyone found the link to the Github PR? Or is this just PR? ;-)

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Post by ckozlowski » Wed, Apr 08, 2015, 5:55 PM UTC

I always thought a hypervisor on top of Windows didn't make much sense.

But this, this makes a lot of sense. Looking forward to it.

Re: Microsoft announces Hyper-V Containers

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Post by kirinan » Wed, Apr 08, 2015, 5:57 PM UTC

This will be what takes containers into the mainstream businesses. Companies may adopt docker or other instead of this, but Microsoft creating their own version of it means its a viable technology. Im more interested in the new frameworks and technologies that get adopted because of this than the fact that its in use. Traditional Java web projects that are hosted on Tomcat/JBoss don't run well inside containers but there are technologies like Node.js that lend themselves to containerization. Open source .NET is now a viable option for linux deployments, and Microsoft's new containers. It will be an interesting couple of years as this shakes out.

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Post by justinsb » Wed, Apr 08, 2015, 5:59 PM UTC

I'd be interested to hear more details of what this actually is. At the OpenStack summit a few years ago we were discussing how everything done in containers via cgroups today could also be done via KVM, for greater security. This sounds like it could be a step in that direction (?)

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Apr 08, 2015, 6:02 PM UTC

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Re: Microsoft announces Hyper-V Containers

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Post by CoreySanders » Wed, Apr 08, 2015, 6:02 PM UTC

justinsb wrote: post #5

Anyone found the link to the Github PR? Or is this just PR? ;-)

Hey Justin, is this what you are looking for: https://github.com/Microsoft/docker.

This is where the Windows team is doing the work to add Windows Server support to the Docker engine. We are working with Docker Inc. to plan the PR up, once it is ready for primetime.

Note, I am an engineer in the Azure team...