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Docker: Why use Linux containers on Windows?


I am using Win 10 Pro N (Version 1709) as a development machine and Windows Server 2016 Standard (Version 1607) as production server.

I am currently developing an ASP.NET Core 2 application with MongoDb as database.

A couple days ago I first stumbled over the idea, to run MongoDb as a Docker image.

I don't have any experience with Docker so far, but I managed to switch from Linux containers (default) to Windows containers on Windows machines.

Was this a good decision? Or is there any reason why I should use Linux containers instead of Windows containers in my scenario?

What e.g. if I should decide to deploy my application to a Linux server some time? In this case, would it wiser to start with Linux containers right from the beginning?


Solution

  • If you want to deploy to linux I would advise using linux containers since you then test a more similar setup and are more likely to find issues that will also show in your final deployment.

    Other than that linux container technology is more mature and better supported than windows containers.