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)
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Windows has two types of Containers
- Hyper V Containers (Not Recommended for production)
- Windows Containers
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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
