Starting a container with PowerShell

Any of you who have worked with containers already know that this section heading is misleading. I did that on purpose, as you will soon see that we can utilize PowerShell as our command line console to do the work, but that we aren’t actually using PowerShell under the hood at all in order to accomplish our work with containers today. Let’s take a look together and find out how easy it really is to start using containers inside Windows Server 2016. The first thing you need is, of course, your server. I have a fresh Windows Server 2016 running. There are a couple of things we need to accomplish on this server in order to prepare it for running containers.

I would like to note here that this process is still evolving, and may continue evolving throughout the infancy of Windows Server 2016. As of this writing, there is a quick-start process that we are going to use which makes the process of getting familiar with the commands and spinning up your first container...