docker images<p><pre><code> REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED VIRTUAL SIZE
windowsservercore latest 9eca9231f4d4 30 hours ago 9.613 GB
windowsservercore 10.0.10254.0 9eca9231f4d4 30 hours ago 9.613 GB
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vs<p><pre><code> REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED VIRTUAL SIZE
alpine latest 31f630c65071 9 weeks ago 5.254 MB
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Aren't containers supposed to be small(er)?
For the ones, that do not want to use Windows/HyperV to prepare and use the VM image: <a href="https://gist.github.com/mustafaakin/0cfbc1b4bb346a05a615" rel="nofollow">https://gist.github.com/mustafaakin/0cfbc1b4bb346a05a615</a>
<p><pre><code> catch
{
Write-Error $_
}
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Powershell is fairly new... I'm surprised Microsoft is using `$_` instead of the common (in UNIX) `$?` to represent the current value in the pipe. It's almost like they go out of their way to not conform to anything other OS' have already done.