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Windows Server 2019 Will Feature Linux and Kubernetes Support (venturebeat.com)

Posted by msmash on from the next-up dept.

Microsoft announced this week that it will launch the next major release of Windows Server later this year with better support for hybrid workloads, Linux workloads, and hyper-converged infrastructure. From a report: This release will succeed Windows Server 2016, which was made generally available in October 2016. While Microsoft moved to twice-yearly updates for Windows Server starting last year, the company bundles those changes into a long-term servicing channel once every two or three years for administrators who prefer less frequent releases. Those companies that haven't moved over to the semi-annual channel will get their first taste of Windows Server's Linux and Kubernetes support, which are currently in beta.

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  1. I don't get it. by AlanObject · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What the hell would I want this for?

    All my Windows servers -- going back to still-running Windows/NT -- are hosted in a Linux-based hypervisor running as VMs. The older ones used to live on bare-metal and moved to a VM and the new ones have been VMs from the start.

    So if I wanted something that Linux provides that Windows does not why wouldn't I just instantiate another Linux VM? All my LAMP, Glassfish, Wikis, mail servers, etc etc are VMs hosted on Ubuntu LTS.

    (These days I never put a publicly routable IP address on a hypervisor environment.)

    I just don't get why what Microsoft is doing would be useful, other than it sounds awesome to people who don't know what they are doing.

    1. Re:I don't get it. by chispito · · Score: 5, Informative

      What the hell would I want this for?

      You wouldn't. Others will.

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  2. Windows server supporting Linux ... by Murdoch5 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why not just run Linux, the better OS, in the first place and when absolutely required (although rarely needed), run Windows Server in a VM?

  3. Re:That's cool by Tailhook · · Score: 4, Funny

    What you want is to run your Windows Server on a VM and use that to emulate Linux and then launch containers inside the emulated Linux. Naturally, inside the containers you run your software inside virtual machine models such as the JVM. If you don't have at least four layers of 'virtual' between you and your hardware you're not trying hard enough.

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  4. Re: That's cool by kenh · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Solaris zones? Kids! IBM mainframes has an os called VM in the late 70s - guess what VM stood for?

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