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Thanks for the link, but the linked github ticket refers to Windows 7 (or any Windows Server prior to Windows 2016), and the ticket reply says: "On Windows (and OS X), the docker daemon, and your containers cannot run natively, so only the docker client is running on your Windows machine, but the daemon (and your containers) run in a VirtualBox Virtual Machine, that runs Linux."; this is valid for Windows7, but this should not be the case for Windows 2016, where containers can run natively.
– Mathias Conradt
Commented Mar 27, 2016 at 15:42
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Also note the comment by thaJeztah on the github page you linked to: "Work is in progress to run Docker Engine natively on Windows Server 2016, but that engine will only run Windows applications, not Linux" <- this is what I am trying to do and using.
– Mathias Conradt
Commented Mar 27, 2016 at 15:47
But you are asking about Docker which is not developed by Microsoft. For seamless integration with Windows, you should be using Windows technology which is Windows Containers and Hyper-V Containers, not Docker.
– harrymc
Commented Mar 27, 2016 at 16:55
I know Docker is not developed by MS, I use it for Linux Containers without problems. Per Microsoft documentation, Docker should work on Win2016 the same way as Windows containers. I am explicitly avoiding Hyper-V in order to not have a VM in between. I will give the Windows Containers approach a try but would prefer to use Docker since its what I use outside of the Windows world as well.
– Mathias Conradt
Commented Mar 27, 2016 at 17:01
The differences will surely disappear in the future. For the current situation, see for example this article : Docker Engine for Windows Server 2016. I would guess that Microsoft should be gunning for total integration with Docker, maybe even in the release version of WS2016.
– harrymc
Commented Mar 27, 2016 at 17:35

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