{"id":244650,"date":"2026-09-30T01:27:36","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T06:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/microsoft-is-rolling-out-linux-container-support-to-wsl"},"modified":"2026-09-30T01:27:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T06:27:36","slug":"microsoft-is-rolling-out-linux-container-support-to-wsl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/microsoft-is-rolling-out-linux-container-support-to-wsl","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft is rolling out Linux container support to WSL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsoft-is-rolling-out-linux-container-support-to-wsl.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft is taking Windows Subsystem for Linux beyond just running Linux distributions, as WSL Containers is now generally available.<\/p>\n<p>You can get the feature by running wsl \u2014update, and once installed, there\u2019s a new wslc.exe command-line tool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is taking Windows Subsystem for Linux beyond just running Linux distributions, as WSL Containers is now generally available. You can get the feature by running wsl \u2014update, and once installed, there\u2019s a new wslc.exe command-line tool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}