Windows containers with Kubernetes on AWS and Azure are thing now.

What does that mean? Is it now possible to containerize system critical windows 3.1 legacy software from the 90ties (like the ticketing software at Airport Paris Orly) and orchestrate it in the cloud?

Do you know any use cases for Microsoft Windows in the cloud?

As much as I hate the idea of Windows containers, this is a good thing.

Where I work we have monolithic .NET applications and websites, so with k8s supporting Windows containers we can now look at splitting apart the apps and containerising them as Windows.

Once that's done, we can then start the very long task of rewriting everything in dotnet/aspnet core.

@Badgerati I imagine this is going to be the primary use case.

Getting monolithic systems that use an unholy mix of file system access / windows services / console apps etc up and running in the cloud as a stepping stone to proper microservice / serveless systems can only be a good thing.