will MSMQ be supported inside a windows container?

[Robert Johansson]

will MSMQ  be supported inside a windows container?

[#2]

Not today. We have received this ask from a number of customers and are evaluating what we can do in the future releases of Windows Server. There are some technology huddles to support it E2E. Can you share a bit more details on what your use cases are and what's the impact today without MSMQ support? It'll help us prioritize.

[#3]

Well, basically this:

https://windowsserver.uservoice.com/forums/304624-containers/suggestions/15719031-create-base-contai...

[#4]

Well, for us the main benefit of MSMQ is the machine local buffer if the remote target is unavailable for some reason. Have yet to find a library that replicates that feature. But not obvious how that would work in a container...

[#5 · Accepted solution]

Robert and all,

In the latest Server Insider build, MSMQ now can install on a Server Core container. Please go ahead and give it try. Let us know if this works for your use case. Thanks.

Here is the Server Core container insider build:
https://hub.docker.com/r/microsoft/windowsservercore-insider/

Here is a blog related to this fix and other ones:
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/virtualization/2018/01/22/a-smaller-windows-server-core-containe...