Microsoft has announced WSL containers for developers who aren’t already using Docker, Podman, or Rancher on their Windows workstations.

WSL containers is now generally available! Check out this blog post to learn more about this overall feature enabling seamless access to Linux containers on Windows via the new “wslc.exe” command. This new Linux container platform comes with multiple architectures changes compared to WSL, which we’ll detail in this post.

↫ Pierre Boulay at the Microsoft Dev Blogs

If you already have WSL installed, you can run wsl -update to get this new container feature, or you can download it straight from GitHub.