General question about Docker images for Windows

There are about 35,000 images on Docker Hub with a “Windows” label attached which show up when “Windows” is selected under “Operating Systems”.

All of them appear also to have the “Linux” label.

Many (or most) of them do not appear to support Windows at all.

Take for example

https://hub.docker.com/_/redis

which appears to offer only Docker images for Redit on LInux, not on Windows.

Most images appear to be like that. On the other hand

https://hub.docker.com/_/traefik

seems to offer Windows images as well as LInux images.

Am I overlooking something?

If you search for example at Redis for tags that have windows you’ll find some old images (>5 years) that where targeting windows. In general, there was a short period of time that companies where targeting windows images as well. Nowadays this isn’t done much anymore.

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