Containers & Kubernetes in Windows Server 2025 or RedHat EL(RHEL)
Windows Server vs RedHat for Modern Hosting Windows Server (including 2025) is traditionally strong for legacy, .NET Framework , Active Directory , and Hyper-V virtualization. Hyper-V is a hypervisor — meaning it is designed to run full Virtual Machines . Each VM boots its own full OS. This is great for old workloads or isolating entire OS instances, but it is heavy for modern microservices. RedHat Enterprise Linux ( RHEL ) and its family (CentOS, Rocky, AlmaLinux) were designed much closer to the container ecosystem . Linux was the birthplace of Docker , containers , and Kubernetes . The kernel features containers depend on (cgroups, namespaces) were invented in Linux. That is why RedHat integrates better with container runtimes (containerd, CRI-O) and Kubernetes cluster nodes. So if someone asks “which is better for containers? Windows or RedHat?” — the modern industry answer is: RedHat or any Linux distro is the natural native home of containers . The Scenario: I want...