Windows Server 2016 Adds Native Overlay Network Driver, enabling mixed Linux...
Based on customer and partner feedback, we are happy to announce the Windows networking team released a native overlay network driver for Windows Server 2016 to enable admins to create a Docker Swarm...
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Use NGINX to load balance across your Docker Swarm cluster
A practical walkthrough, in six steps This basic example demonstrates NGINX and swarm mode in action, to provide the foundation for you to apply these concepts to your own configurations. This document...
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Making it easier to revert
Sometimes when things go wrong in my environment, I don’t want to have to clean it all up — I just want to go back in time to when everything was working. But remembering to maintain good recovery...
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Vagrant and Hyper-V — Tips and Tricks
Learning to Use Vagrant on Windows 10 A few months ago, I went to DockerCon as a Microsoft representative. While I was there, I had the chance to ask developers about their favorite tools. The most...
View ArticleCopying Files into a Hyper-V VM with Vagrant
A couple of weeks ago, I published a blog with tips and tricks for getting started with Vagrant on Hyper-V. My fifth tip was to “Enable Nifty Hyper-V Features,” where I briefly mentioned stuff like...
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Hyper-V virtual machine gallery and networking improvements
In January, we added Quick Create to Hyper-V manager in Windows 10. Quick Create is a single-page wizard for fast, easy, virtual machine creation. Starting in the latest fast-track Windows Insider...
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Delivering Safer Apps with Windows Server 2016 and Docker Enterprise Edition
Windows Server 2016 and Docker Enterprise Edition are revolutionizing the way Windows developers can create, deploy, and manage their applications on-premises and in the cloud. Microsoft and Docker are...
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Docker’s routing mesh available with Windows Server version 1709
The Windows Core Networking team, along with our friends at Docker, are thrilled to announce that support for Docker’s ingress routing mesh will be supported with Windows Server version 1709. Ingress...
View ArticleContainer Images are now out for Windows Server version 1709!
With the release of Windows Server version 1709 also come Windows Server Core and Nano Server base OS container images. It is important to note that while older versions of the base OS container images...
View ArticleA great way to collect logs for troubleshooting
Did you ever have to troubleshoot issues within a Hyper-V cluster or standalone environment and found yourself switching between different event logs? Or did you repro something just to find out not...
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Available to Windows 10 Insiders Today: Access to published container ports...
This is a cross-post; click the link below to be rerouted to our main post on the Networking Blog Available to Windows 10 Insiders Today: Access to published container ports via “localhost”/127.0.0.1
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Create your custom Quick Create VM gallery
Have you ever wondered whether it is possible to add your own custom images to the list of available VMs for Quick Create? The answer is: Yes, you can! Since quite a few people have been asking us,...
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What’s new in Hyper-V for Windows 10 Fall Creators Update?
Windows 10 Fall Creators Update has arrived! While we’ve been blogging about new features as they appear in Windows Insider builds, many of you have asked for a consolidated list of Hyper-V updates...
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WSL Interoperability with Docker
We frequently get asked about running docker from within the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). We don’t support running the docker daemon directly in WSL. But what you can do is call in to the daemon...
View ArticleMigrating local VM owner certificates for VMs with vTPM
Whenever I want to replace or reinstall a system which is used to run virtual machines with a virtual trusted platform module (vTPM), I’ve been facing a challenge: For hosts that are not part of a...
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Tar and Curl Come to Windows!
Beginning in Insider Build 17063, we’re introducing two command-line tools to the Windows toolchain: curl and bsdtar. It’s been a long time coming, I know. We’d like to give credit to the folks who’ve...
View ArticleA smaller Windows Server Core Container with better Application Compatibility
In Windows Server Insider Preview Build 17074 released on Tuesday Jan 16, 2018, there are some exciting improvements to Windows Server containers that we’d like to share with you. We’d love for you to...
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Looking at the Hyper-V Event Log (January 2018 edition)
Hyper-V has changed over the last few years and so has our event log structure. With that in mind, here is an update of Ben’s original post in 2009 (“Looking at the Hyper-V Event Log”). This post gives...
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Sneak Peek: Taking a Spin with Enhanced Linux VMs
Whether you’re a developer or an IT admin, virtual machines are familiar tools that allow users to run entirely separate operating system instances on a host. And despite being a separate OS, we feel...
View ArticleHyper-V symbols for debugging
Having access to debugging symbols can be very handy, for example when you are A partner building solutions leveraging Hyper-V, Trying to debug a specific issue, or Searching for bugs to participate in...
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