Docker and Kubernetes

Docker started as an open source project – a toolset, really – that was originally designed to assist with the running of containers on Linux operating systems. Wait a minute, what? The words Linux and open source have been written once again inside a Microsoft book! What is this world coming to? You see, containers are quickly becoming a big deal, and rightfully so. In Server 2016, Microsoft took some steps to start reinventing the container wheel, with the inclusion of PowerShell cmdlets that could be used to spin up and control containers running on your Windows Server, but the Docker platform has grown at such a fast rate that Microsoft now expects that anyone who wants to run containers on their Windows machines is probably going to do so via the Docker toolset. If you want to utilize or even test containers in your environment, you’ll need to get Docker for Windows to get started.

Docker is a container platform. This means that...