Mirantis Container Runtime (MCR) is designed for enterprise development and IT teams to build, ship, and run business-critical applications in production and at scale. MCR enables native Docker containers on Windows Server, and is certified and supported on WIndows 2019 and Windows 2022 to provide enterprises with the most secure container platform in the industry. MCR can be downloaded and configured on Windows Server using Mirantis Powershell install script or users on Azure platform can use Windows with MCR VM image which is pre-configured with MCR to quickly provision Azure VMs and run containerized applications.

1. CRI compliant container runtime
2. 24x7 support
3. Enforced Signed images
4. New Storage interface

The Windows Server 2019 Datacenter with Containers image was designed to enable Developers and IT Pros to create cloud native and modernize their traditional apps using containers and micro-services. Mirantis Container Runtime is a truly tested and used by Fortune 2000 companies since 2016 to run their mission critical applications.

This new VM image is offered by Mirantis, under Mirantis license, and continue to run your containerized application, it's same enterprise container runtime binary licensed by Microsoft.

NOTE: Mirantis Container Runtime 20.10.x was EOL'd November 2023. Mirantis has decided to give 6 month grace period for Azure customers to move to MCR 23.0.x. Mirantis will not publish Windows/MCR 20.10.x VM Image starting July,