State of Windows Containers, How to Modernise Your IT for Windows Applications

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Microsoft considers Windows containers production-ready and shows how to enable them on Windows Server 2016/2019 using simple PowerShell commands. It explains the tradeoff between shared-kernel Windows containers for density and Hyper-V isolation (using a LinuxKit VM under the hood) for stronger isolation, notes AWS limitations with nested virtualization, and recommends workloads such as stateless web services, .NET/.NET Core apps and service wrappers while advising against heavy databases, GUI or GPU‑intensive apps; it also demonstrates running Windows container images directly in Azure Container Instances.

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1. 0:00Windows containers on Microsoft
2. 3:33Windows container support evolution
3. 8:11Windows vs Hyper-V containers
4. 12:52Modernizable use cases
5. 18:40Server Core vs Nano Server
6. 21:59Docker multi-stage builds
7. 23:25Kubernetes on Windows
8. 24:29Demo: Windows containers in ACI

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