Unless you’ve been working out of a cave, you’ve probably heard that containers are the future in app development and that many businesses have been looking into using Docker, Kubernetes, and other containerized solutions to update their applications. However, moving to a new containerized platform can be difficult – requiring the mastery of lots of… Read More

On this edition of the Enterprise Dish, we dive into containers news and knowledge, take a look at Build and VeeamOn, and help you get started with your 2012 R2 upgrade.

On this edition of the Enterprise Dish, Microsoft made significant announcements this week about the future of Windows and how applications will function in the new world of Windows 10X.

While it is easy to grasp the basic idea of how containers work and how they differ from virtual machines (VM), understanding container images and layers is a bit more complicated.

Need a little extra GPU power inside your container? Here is how you can turn on GPU acceleration in Windows Containers.

Aidan Finn discusses what Azure Containers can do and how they can be used and managed in Azure.

Microsoft and Red Hat are deepening their relationship to make it easier to run containers in your environment regardless of the operating system.

In this Ask the Admin, Russell Smith looks in detail at the mechanics of how Linux containers will be supported in Windows Server 2016.

Learn how to get started quickly with Windows Containers and Docker with a little bit of help from Microsoft Azure.

I wonder out loud if containers are the future of the cloud, and if other types of infrastructure or platform solutions for running code have a long-term future. Please read what I think and then join the conversation below to let us know your views. How Cloud Is Being Used Now My view of how… Read More

A malicious user could break out of a container if they uncover a design fault in the implementation of containers or an unpatched OS vulnerability. However, Windows Server addresses these security challenges by providing the option to place containers into Hyper-V partitions

Learn why containers are more efficient than virtual machines, and the benefits of using Docker images with containers.

Find out how to deploy an image to a container in Windows Server 2016, create a new image, and upload it to Docker.

Russell Smith discusses Microsoft's Drawbridge research project and how it could change they way we virtualize applications in Windows Server.

Learn how to deploy Windows Server Containers with direct network connectivity and DHCP-assigned IP addresses.