

NET core but, in keeping with the minimalism, we’ve tried to slim down the image size as much as possible. On the opposite end of the spectrum is nanoserver, which is built to be lightweight with as minimal a memory footprint as possible. The servercore image is the larger of the two and has support for such things as the full. We offer two base images for our containers: windowsservercore and nanoserver.

Instead, we can invoke the tools like so: Background Now that we’re shipping these tools inbox, you no longer need to worry about using a separate container image as the builder when targeting nanoserver-based containers. PowerShell does already offer similar functionality (it has curl and it's own file extraction utilities), but we recognize that there might be instances where PowerShell is not readily available or the user wants to stay in cmd. Now not only will you be able to perform file transfers from the command line, you'll also be able to extract files in formats in addition to.

We'd like to give credit to the folks who’ve created and maintain bsdtar and curl-awesome open-source tools used by millions of humans every day. Beginning in Insider Build 17063, we’re introducing two command-line tools to the Windows toolchain: curl and bsdtar.
