In this chapter, we discussed Windows containers and how they can change the way we deploy applications. We also talked about container benefits and how they can integrate across Dev and Ops teams to accelerate application delivery.
Finally, we showed you how to deploy and run a Windows Server container and a Hyper-V container on top of Nano Server using Nano base OS and Server Core images running IIS.
It's worth noting that not all web applications will run on Nano Server. IIS version 10 running on Nano Server targets applications developed and based on ASP.NET Core, so the full .NET Framework will not run. Applications written in Java and PHP will run with IIS on Nano.
Microsoft is working on reducing the size of the Nano base OS image footprint on disk by 50% and even more by the time you read this. This has two benefits: firstly, it will speed up the start-up...
