With the newest Docker Enterprise Edition, you can now have Docker clusters composed of nodes running different operating systems.
Three of the key OSes supported by Docker—Windows, Linux, and IBM System Z—can run applications side by side in the same cluster, all orchestrated by a common mechanism.
Clustering apps across multiple OSes in Docker requires that you build per-OS images for each app. But those apps, when running on both Windows and Linux, can be linked to run in concert via Docker’s overlay networking.
New APIs also allow cluster configuration to be automated.