Introduction to Windows Server Containers

Windows Server Containers is an OS virtualization technology from Microsoft that is available from Windows Server 2016 onwards. Windows Server Containers are lightweight processes that are isolated from each other and have a similar view of the OS, processes, filesystem, and network. Technically speaking, Windows Server Containers are similar to Linux containers, which we discussed earlier. The only difference being the underlying kernel and workloads that run on these containers. The following image describes Windows Server Containers: