Rancher v1.3: Experimental Windows Containers Support

Earlier this week, we released [Rancher 1.3]. It includes several new features: user interface fixes, changes to our DNS engines, and improvements when using Kubernetes and associated tooling. However, Rancher 1.3 also begins addressing a frequent request we receive from users: Windows 2016 support. Windows support in Rancher 1.3 is purely experimental and limited in scope (you can [read more in our docs]), but it’s an important step towards serving the needs of our customers as containers become more widely adopted in enterprises. A huge portion of the world’s workloads run on Windows server and client systems, and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future; our goal at Rancher Labs is to make applications truly portable across clouds and infrastructure, and enabling workloads with Windows containers is a key part of that vision. In the meantime, we look forward to getting your feedback on these early efforts. While the most engaged members of our community have already taken a look at our preliminary Windows support through our prior release candidate, we know Rancher only gets better through wider feedback from our users. Let us know how we’re doing, on Twitter [@Rancher_Labs], through the [forums], or at one of our upcoming meetups:

SF Bay Area Rancher User Meetup:

Thursday, January 12, 6 PM local time in San Francisco RSVP here

Rancher Online Meetup:

Wednesday, January 25, 1 PM US Eastern Time RSVP here