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Are there caveats how containers are licensed or is this all included in Windows Server Datacenter?
p.s. I think I misunderstood, this is not a Windows Server on-prem feature / role but in fact Azure Kubernetes Services?- Taylor Brown
Microsoft
Windows containers are available in both standard and datacenter editions. The only difference is with regards to Hyper-V isolated containers (which are not yet available on AKS), when using those Standard edition includes two isolated containers per license (similar to WS virtual machines). When using AKS, with Windows containers, you are using Windows Server hosts and the price for the worker nodes includes the OS license. You can also leverage AHUB with AKS to take advantage of your existing licenses.
- Are there relations to Windows Containers role and AKS? It is still abstract to me #notaDev Are there wizards to "convert" WS apps running with WS on GUI or Core to bring them into Windows Server Containers?
- ViniciusApolinarioWindows Server as a container host simply runs a container. When you have a complex app with multiple containers, you need a container orchestrator, such as Kubernetes. That's what AKS is - a managed Kubernetes service on Azure where you don't have to manage the Kubernetes infra itself. As for containerizing, two things: First, Windows containers don't support apps with a GUI. We have more details here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowscontainers/quick-start/lift-shift-to-containers. Second, for containerization, you can use something like Azure Migrate or any other solution that Fady mentioned. Take a look here: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/containers/migration-and-modernization-solutions-for-windows-based/ba-p/4050278
- I woud not agree that the most of Microsofts server customers are focusing on programming.
- I agree yet there are many developers using Window Server as a base and then a whole ecosystem of software around Windows Server, maybe this is what Fady meant. Just guessing.
- Heather_Poulsen
Community Manager
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