When server restarts we can pull the Windows Server 2019 Core image that we will use to run Windows Admin Center. Then we must install Docker as per Microsoft Docs : Install-Module -Name DockerMsftProvider -Repository PSGallery -ForceĪnd then Install-Package -Name docker -ProviderName DockerMsftProviderĪnd finally restore Windows Server 2019 to complete installation Restart-Computer -Force We must first enable containers support by selecting and adding the feature in Roles&Features section of Server Manager: To deploy WAC into a container we will use Windows Server 2019. Finally, by using Hyper-V isolation multiple instances of WAC could be isolated and provided to multiple tenants. Containers could be also useful to mitigate any security issue that could arise even if Windows Admin Center showed no security vulnerabilities as far as I know. Furthermore, multiple copies of WAC, possibly in use by different teams, could be deployed and used thanks to the isolation provided by containers and their flexibility.
So the first question would be: why would someone want to containerize Windows Admin Center ? First, a containerized WAC would be very easy to deploy on multiple systems in a very straightforward way. Why containerizing Windows Admin Center ? Productivity is enhanced especially when used with the Core version of Windows operating systems and I’m not surprised that Microsoft is experiencing a growth in adoption for the Core SKUs because of it. However, Windows Admin Center is gaining a lot of traction and it’s quickly gaining support because its Web UI allows to embed important tasks into simple to access and to use widgets called tools and access them through a simple browser. That is true because Server Manager and its underlying technology has a deeper connection with the operating system and it can be considered a platform while Winows Admin Center can be considered a very sophisticated shell that mostly works through WMI/Powershell connections. Microsoft is investing a lot into its new Server Manager though Redmond is not encouraging that parallelism and often says that Windows Admin Center is not a 1-to-1 replacement for Server Manager.
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