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Demo!How?Newsystem-levelcontainercapabilitiesinWindowsNamespacesResourcecontrolsUnionfilesystemAdaptedDockertoWindowsAdaptedWindowstoDockerArchitectureInLinuxcontainerd+runcDockerEngineRESTInterfacelibcontainerdgraphlibnetworkpluginsOperatingSystemControlGroupscgroupsNamespacesPid,net,ipc,mnt,utsLayerCapabilitiesUnionFilesystemsAUFS,btrfs,vfs,zfs*,DeviceMapperOtherOSFunctionalityDockerClientDockerRegistryDockerComposeDockerSwarmArchitectureInWindowsDockerEngineRESTInterfacelibcontainerdgraphlibnetworkpluginsOperatingSystemControlGroupsJobobjectsNamespacesObjectNamespace,ProcessTable,NetworkingLayerCapabilitiesRegistry,UnionlikefilesystemextensionsOtherOSFunctionalityComputeServiceDockerClientDockerRegistryDockerComposeDockerSwarmComputeServicePublicinterfacetocontainersReplacescontainerdonWindowsManagesrunningcontainersAbstractslow-levelcapabilitiesLanguagebindingsavailableC#:

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SpecificallyOptimizedToRunaContainerContainerManagementWindowsKernelComputeServicesDockerEngineSystemProcessesSessionManagerLocalSecurityAuthorityEventManager…Etc…Hyper-VHypervisorHyper-VContainerWindowsKernelGuestComputeServiceWindowsServerContainerSystemProcessesApplicationProcessesJobObjectNetInterfaceStorageRegistryBasicSystemProcessesMakingitworkSmall,stateless“utilityVM”SmallestWindowsyet?WritesnotpersistedStorageattached