A little background

Here's a little background about Windows Server Containers:

• Microsoft's research team worked on a program called Drawbridge for bringing the famous container technologies to Windows Server ecosystem
• In the year 2014, Microsoft started working with Docker to bring the Docker technology to Windows
• In July 2015, Microsoft joined Open Container Initiative (OCI) extending its support for universal container standards, formats, and runtime
• In 2015, Mark Russinovich, CTO at Microsoft Azure, demonstrated the integration of containers with Windows
• In October 2015, Microsoft announced the availability of Windows Server with containers and Docker support in its new Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 3 and Windows 10

Microsoft adapted Docker in its famous Windows Server ecosystem so developers can now develop, package, and deploy containers to Windows/Linux machines using the same toolset. Apart from support for the Docker toolset on Windows Server, Microsoft is also launching native support to work with containers using PowerShell and Windows CLI. Since OS virtualization is a kernel level feature there is no cross platform portability yet, which means a Linux container cannot be ported to Windows or vice versa.