{"id":517267,"date":"2026-06-29T22:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T22:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/517267\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T22:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T22:24:10","slug":"wsl-containers-is-now-available-in-public-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/517267\/","title":{"rendered":"WSL Containers is Now Available in Public Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-338134\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/wsl-containers.jpg\" alt=\"WSL Containers is Now Available in Public Preview\" width=\"1066\" height=\"657\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>WSL Containers is one of the more interesting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thurrott.com\/dev\/336950\/build-2026-microsoft-optimizes-windows-11-for-developers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">developer advances announced at Build 2026<\/a> and it\u2019s available now in public preview.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWSL containers bring Linux container development directly into Windows through the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL),\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/commandline\/wsl-container-is-now-available-for-public-preview\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft senior product manager Craig Loewen explains<\/a>. \u201cContainers have become a foundational part of modern development \u2013 from cloud-native applications and AI workloads to testing and deployment pipelines and WSL containers simplify this experience by providing a built-in, enterprise-ready way to create, run, and manage Linux containers on Windows, without requiring additional third-party tooling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WSL Containers consists of a new command line interface (CLI) for WSL for building, running, and managing containers and a set of fully projected C++ and C#\/WinRT <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/microsoft\/wsl\/releases\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">APIs for Windows developers<\/a> who need to run Linux containers in their apps.<\/p>\n<p>You can install WSL Containers as part of the latest pre-release version of WSL from <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/microsoft\/WSL\/releases\/tag\/2.9.3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GitHub<\/a>\u00a0or using the Windows Package Manager (winget):<\/p>\n<p>wsl \u2013update \u2013pre-release<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=i0M13ZvL04M\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">And you can learn more about WSL Containers from this Build 2026 session video<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows\/wsl\/wsl-container?tabs=csharp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the documentation on Microsoft Learn<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WSL Containers is one of the more interesting developer advances announced at Build 2026 and it\u2019s available now&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[85,46,125,236944,25075,236943],"class_list":["post-517267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-technology","tag-windows-subsystem-for-android","tag-wsl","tag-wsl-containers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}