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Image2Docker: A New Tool for Prototyping Windows VM Conversions

Mano Marks
Sep 28 2016

Docker is a great tool for building, shipping, and running your applications. Many companies are already moving their legacy applications to Docker containers and now with the introduction of the Microsoft Windows Server 2016, Docker Engine can now run containers...

So, when do you use a Container or VM?

Mike Coleman
May 13 2016

Recently I was giving a talk at a trade show on the basics of Docker, and how an application goes from an idea to being a production workload running on a Universal Control Plane managed Swarm cluster. As part of that talk, I spent a bit of time talking about how...

Containers and VMs Together

Mike Coleman
Apr 8 2016

A couple weeks back I talked about how Docker containers were not virtual machines (VMs). I received a lot of positive feedback on the article (thanks!), but I also heard a common question: Can VMs and Docker containers coexist? The answer is a resounding “yes.” At...

Containers are not VMs

Mike Coleman
Mar 24 2016

I spend a good portion of my time at Docker talking to community members with varying degrees of familiarity with Docker and I sense a common theme: people’s natural response when first working with Docker is to try and frame it in terms of virtual machines. I can’t...