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1. Microsoft pushing different container orchestration platforms simultaneously and it's difficult to decide where to invest time learning and implementing. There is swarm, DC/OS, kubernetes and service fabric. So question is which container orchestration is supported for windows container and worth investing time and money into?
- Taylor Brown
Microsoft
Great question – we’ve got a number of options available for you including: Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, Service Fabric and soon DC/OS. At the end of the day the choice is yours – if you have existing deployments that might be the best place to start, if you are coming into this space as a new user I would recommend playing around with two just to provide some comparisons but I would make one of those Kubernetes as that is clearly emerging as the orchestrator of choice across the industry and with many customers.
Thanks for the great question - hope this helps!
- Well the problem with Kubernetes that it does not support Windows containers. The only supported orchestrators are swarm and SF, is it correct?
- Taylor Brown
Several Kubernetes distributions have announced support forthcoming and it is available in preview on Azure though ACS (which is how I use it). Swarm and Service Fabric are supported on-prem today.
