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  REPOSITORY         TAG          IMAGE ID      CREATED       VIRTUAL SIZE
  windowsservercore  latest       9eca9231f4d4  30 hours ago  9.613 GB
  windowsservercore  10.0.10254.0 9eca9231f4d4  30 hours ago  9.613 GB

  REPOSITORY         TAG          IMAGE ID      CREATED       VIRTUAL SIZE
  alpine             latest       31f630c65071  9 weeks ago   5.254 MB

Aren't containers supposed to be small(er)?

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Don’t worry. This is an early build and you’ll see things get smaller in future updates :).

*I work for Microsoft on these specifically.

Is this going to be through use of nano server for the container images I guess? Or something you cannot yet share.

Bingo.

No, they aren't supposed to be anything.

Docker added this concept of a "graphdriver" where things are stored as their delta on disk as they assume you'll use many of them. Obviously your first windows container is gonna use up more blocks in that type of storage than a linux container built specifically to be small[0]

[0]: http://gliderlabs.viewdocs.io/docker-alpine/

Is it a container or an image ? it looks like some image for VM with some kind of bootstrapping for linux or something. And what is the license for a Windows Server Core ? Is it possible to find a ELI5 for how it is supposed to work ?

It's a container image (output from docker images).

see https://msdn.microsoft.com/virtualization/windowscontainers/...

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