Support for Windows-based containers in Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10.

Microsoft introduced support for Windows-based containers in Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10.

With this, you can now take an existing Windows application, containerize it using Docker, and run it as an isolated container on Windows. Microsoft supports two flavors of Windows containers: Windows Server and Hyper-V.

You can build Windows containers on either the microsoft/windowsservercore and microsoft/nanoserver base images. You can read more about Windows containers in the Microsoft Windows containers documentation.

Google Cloud provides container-optimized VM images that you can use to run containers on Compute Engine.