Windows Containers

• Windows Containers can run only on windows OS
• Linux Containers can be run on Windows as well as Linux
• Windows has two flavors
  • Desktop (Windows 10/11)
  • Server (Windows 2016, 2019,2022)
• Windows has two types of Containers
  • Hyper V Containers (Not Recommended for production)
  • Windows Containers
• Windows:
  • Client speaks with daemon
  • Daemon speaks with Compute Service Layer (This is windows replacement of containerd process)
  • Windows also introduced Namespaces and Control groups for process isolation
  • Microsoft had to make changes in NTFS and registries to simulate image layers
• Windows containers on WinServer 2022 Refer Here
• Refer Here for windows images