Is windows docker images the same with windows container images?

Question

I was following this article to learn about Windows Container in Windows Server TP4. Since the article came with both 'Powershell way' and 'docker way', then I thought that both ways are interchangeable. I thought that container and container image created from powershell can be managed from docker and vise versa.

Then after I finished and created everything in powershell, I run docker images and docker ps, and my containers / images are not there?!

Am I missing something or really they are both different things?

Answer 1

Currently in TP4 of Windows Server 2016 there are two methods of running and managing containers. Docker and PowerShell.

They are not interchangeable at this time.

So get-containerimage will only fetch PowerShell created Images and docker images will only fetch Docker created images

I do not know if it is the plan to make them completely interchangeable for the RTM version.

Yours

Ed

Answer 2

The situation is the same in TP5 - the container images are the same for each type of container but the method of control is limited to the method used to create the container from the image.