On Sun, Nov 01, 2015 at 05:58:54AM -0800, C. Titus Brown wrote:
> From what I understand, Juan is correct here; Docker runs inside of
> lightweight VMs on both Mac and Windows.  Has this changed?

Windows has recently added native containerization (e.g. see [1,2]),
and there are Windows folks actively involved in the Open Container
Initiative [3] which is is an attempt to build open standards around
the container logic behind Docker [4].  So now you can run
(Windows-specific) Docker images with native Windows containerization
[5].  But how long it takes until your average SWC learner shows up
with a Windows laptop that can do what can now only be done in the
Windows Server 2016 Tech Preview 3 is anybody's guess ;).  And you'd
still need folks with access to Windows boxes to generate the images
for those learners to run.

Cheers,
Trevor

[1]: 
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowscontainers/about/about_overview
[2]: 
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowscontainers/quick_start/manage_docker
[3]: http://opencontainers.org/
[4]: https://blog.docker.com/2015/06/runc/
[5]: http://blog.docker.com/2015/08/tp-docker-engine-windows-server-2016/

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