Contrast that with the license considerations running Docker on Ubuntu:<p>1.) Containers are available on both desktops and servers because they&#x27;re fundamentally the same OS (but with different sets of packages installed by default).<p>2.) As always, the server and desktop versions of Ubuntu available for unlimited use with <i>zero licensing costs</i>.  Completely free.<p>I&#x27;d also like to add that the &quot;base&quot; Windows Server container image is 9.3 gigabytes while the base Ubuntu container image is 120 <i>megabytes</i>.  Put it all together and you wind up with vastly greater costs to run Docker containers on Windows.<p>Having said that, if your application only runs on Windows then putting inside a container might not be a bad idea.