Add Support for Windows Worker Roles

[RehanSaeed]

Please consider adding support for windows containers.

• As a first iteration I would like to add worker roles only. I'm not sure there is much of a use case for Windows manager nodes.
• There are also two versions of Windows that could be supported, Windows Server Nano and Windows Server 2016. Windows Server Nano is only really useful for .NET Core based containers which can also run on Linux. In my opinion I'm not sure why you would run .NET Core containers on Windows Server Nano when you can use a cheaper Linux host. Therefore I think it makes more sense to support Windows Server 2016. I myself would like Windows Server 2016 support so I can run legacy ASP.NET apps using IIS.

[kencochrane]

Thanks, It is on our roadmap to support windows worker nodes in the future.

[RehanSaeed]

@kencochrane Sounds great. Can you give a rough guestimate for when that is going to happen, promise not to hold you to it.

[kencochrane]

@RehanSaeed to be honest I don't know, we have a few other things we need to do first before we can do it. @friism do you have any estimates?

[friism]

I'm guessing it'll be a couple of months. We're working on adding this in Docker for Azure first.

[wickstargazer]

Hi, i was wondering about docker/guide-aws and docker/init-aws how do i make them work for windows-2016 or they are only for Linux since i understand that the docker.sock is as npipe in windows.

Will these be addressed or re-purpose? Regards, Wick

[hnafar]

I was also wondering about support for windows worker nodes...

[beingamarnath]

Are there any planned dates for windows support available for aws and azure.

[beingamarnath]

@kencochrane @friism Any updates on windows availability. Is it in development now?