# Windows Docker support **URL:** \ **Category:** Rancher 1.x\ **Created:** [March 10, 2016, 12:46pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/windows-docker-support/1990 "2016-03-10T12:46:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johan\_Lindberg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Johan\_Lindberg](https://forums.suse.com/u/Johan_Lindberg)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 12:46pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/windows-docker-support/1990/1 "2016-03-10T12:46:59Z")
Is it possible or in the backlog to get rancher to orchestrate Windows Docker hosts introduced in Server 2016? ---
**Author:** ![withinboredom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/withinboredom/32/808_2.png) [@withinboredom](https://forums.suse.com/u/withinboredom)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2016, 1:01pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/windows-docker-support/1990/2 "2016-03-15T13:01:23Z")
This would be awesome, they’d be the first ones to support Windows orchestration, I think. ---
**Author:** ![smw355](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/smw355/32/930_2.png) [@smw355](https://forums.suse.com/u/smw355)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2016, 6:43pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/windows-docker-support/1990/4 "2016-04-21T18:43:50Z")
This is definitely something we’ve got on the roadmap, and would love to make happen this year. Right now we’ve not finalized a date, but there are a number of users asking for this feature. ---
**Author:** ![denise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/82dd89/32.png) [@denise](https://forums.suse.com/u/denise)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2016, 9:10pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/windows-docker-support/1990/5 "2016-05-03T21:10:47Z")
FYI, someone created a feature request in Github if you want to watch it. > ---
**Author:** ![rgauny](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/rgauny/32/1409_2.png) [@rgauny](https://forums.suse.com/u/rgauny)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2016, 6:14pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/windows-docker-support/1990/6 "2016-06-06T18:14:06Z")
+voting up Needed for tons of corps… If first to market, it would generate a lot of revenue in enterprise level support. I would actually be on now to get ahead. I know my Corp would beta and help with right now and we are a fortune 50 company. ---
**Author:** ![Luke\_Youngblood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/59ef9b/32.png) [@Luke\_Youngblood](https://forums.suse.com/u/Luke_Youngblood)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2016, 3:34pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/windows-docker-support/1990/7 "2016-06-09T15:34:07Z")
ContainerX is already supporting Windows Server 2016 TP4 as a container host and building clusters in Azure. I think Rancher is overall a much more complete solution than ContainerX, and it would be great to see this support, but I can imagine a million reasons why this is hard to do - overlay networking, DNS, service discovery, would all be drastically different in Windows. ---
**Author:** ![kvaes](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/kvaes/32/972_2.png) [@kvaes](https://forums.suse.com/u/kvaes)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2016, 9:29pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/windows-docker-support/1990/8 "2016-06-26T21:29:41Z")
ContainerX looks weak in the engine… Though I know windows support will be key for the typical Belgian market. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![trondhindenes](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/trondhindenes/32/1780_2.png) [@trondhindenes](https://forums.suse.com/u/trondhindenes)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2017, 9:41pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/windows-docker-support/1990/9 "2017-05-20T21:41:36Z")
Anything happening on the Windows side? According to a Rancher community meetup I attended online, Windows was gonna be a first-class citizen “in the next release”? (Can’t remember when that was, but it was a good while ago. Did anything happen to postpone this? ---
**Author:** ![trondhindenes](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/trondhindenes/32/1780_2.png) [@trondhindenes](https://forums.suse.com/u/trondhindenes)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2017, 9:57pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/windows-docker-support/1990/10 "2017-06-07T21:57:44Z")
…nothing? If the plans do make Windows containers a first-class citizen are postponed or somehow cancelled, then I’d really like to know. There’s been absolutely zero information regarding Windows since that virtual meetup many many moons ago. I’d really appreciate some update, whether it’s good news or bad.