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Docker for Windows 2016

Our applications run on Windows server, rather than Linux, so I've been following the Docker story from somewhat of a distance. I understand that Docker will be available for Windows 2016 and was curious what this meant.

Could someone please help me understand what it is;

My overview is that it's a containerisation technology for servers. Back in the day, if I had App1 and App2, they would either run on two different physical servers or be combined onto one, albeit with the risk of conflicting with each other. Then we moved to virtualisation (ESX et al) and the two servers were virtual, rather than physical, but servers nonetheless, each with its own OS.

With Docker, I can run the two apps on the same server in their own container. They won't conflict with each other, nor access the same files etc. Is this basically correct?

I guess it's an element of cloud computing/ SaaS where we were more interested with the application technology rather than the underlying server hardware any more.
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I read that in the article and thank you for posting the details. I compared it to a VM because it disables Virtual Box (and probably VMware as well). Docker comes for Windows 10 as well as Server 2016.
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