# Windows Requirement

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/windows-requirement/6047>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [April 3, 2017, 3:49pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/windows-requirement/6047 "2017-04-03T15:49:45Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 3, 2017, 3:49pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/windows-requirement/6047/1 "2017-04-03T15:49:45Z")

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We have a requirement that our application needs to run containers on Windows hosts - which appears to be the main focus of Windows related efforts for Rancher today.

But it appears that a lot of the awesome stuff we can do with Rancher on Linux hosts doesn’t really work yet:

> Most of the other features in Cattle that may appear in the UI are currently not supported (e.g. service discovery, healthcheck, meta data, DNS, load balancer).
> 
> ([from the 1.5 docs](https://docs.rancher.com/rancher/v1.5/en/windows/))

[Is this a comprehensive list](https://github.com/rancher/rancher/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=label%3Aarea%2Fwindows) of what’s in progress across all projects related to Windows support - if not, is there one?

Most of the tickets are unscheduled and don’t have a lot of description – that’s fine but can someone explain at a high level what the technical hurdles are to implementing these?

Thanks!