Category Archives: Containers

I’m doing some work requiring containers and decided to use Server 1709 as it has some significant changes when compared to Server 2016. The documentation – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowscontainers/about/ – just gives options for Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server Insider Preview. … Continue reading →

Nano server is the small, really small, footprint install version of Windows Server that was introduced with Server 2016. it has a limited number of roles available to to install – much like the original version of  Server core. Recent … Continue reading →

Containers are a new feature in Windows 2016. I was preparing for my talk at the WinOps conference next week – http://winops.org/ – and realised I needed the container OS image for nano server I discovered that there are 2 … Continue reading →