microsoft/Windows-Containers

Are containers still supported on Windows Server 2016?

Trigve opened this issue · 2 comments

Trigve commented

I'm trying to use containers on Windows server 2016 (DE) on VPS. I'm using docker 20.10.9 (the latest support on windows server 2016). When I try to pull windows server image, I've got the error no matching manifest for windows/amd64 10.0.14393 in the manifest list entries. As noted in the doc, 2016 host must match exactly the container version. But I couldn't find any image for windows server 2016. From what I've read, the 2016 images were removed some time ago. So how can I then run containers on windows server 2016 then? Is there some archive of older images?

akarshm commented

@Trigve, the container image lifecycle is documented here. We still publish WS2016 Server Core image (mcr.microsoft.com/windows/servercore:ltsc2016) which is in service until Jan 11, 2027. Please feel free to ask us if you need any further information.

Trigve commented

Thanks for the reply.
I was trying "windows server" (standard) image, which after reading the links you provided is supported only for 2022. But now as I'm thinking I think windows core should suffice.