License on Windows

Jus to add to @rimelek info: Windows Server can run Windows containers. However, you can’t run Docker Desktop. Instead, you can run Docker CE (community supported, includes CLI), Mirantis Container runtime (commercial use, requires a MCR license), or ContainerD (community supported, does not include CLI).

Microsoft has created scripts to install both Docker CE (aka Moby) and ContainerD. The scripts will install everything you need to get it working, but keep in mind that the containerD one also installs nerdctl as the CLI. More details here: Prep Windows operating system containers | Microsoft Learn

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