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Docker on Windows

By : Elton Stoneman
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Docker on Windows

By: Elton Stoneman

Overview of this book

Docker is a platform for running server applications in lightweight units called containers. You can run Docker on Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10, and run your existing apps in containers to get significant improvements in efficiency, security, and portability. This book teaches you all you need to know about Docker on Windows, from 101 to deploying highly-available workloads in production. This book takes you on a Docker journey, starting with the key concepts and simple examples of how to run .NET Framework and .NET Core apps in Windows Docker containers. Then it moves on to more complex examples—using Docker to modernize the architecture and development of traditional ASP.NET and SQL Server apps. The examples show you how to break up monoliths into distributed apps and deploy them to a clustered environment in the cloud, using the exact same artifacts you use to run them locally. To help you move confidently to production, it then explains Docker security, and the management and support options. The book finishes with guidance on getting started with Docker in your own projects, together with some real-world case studies for Docker implementations, from small-scale on-premises apps to very large-scale apps running on Azure.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

Running shared development services in Docker


Services such as source control and the image registry are good candidates to be shared between many projects. They have similar requirements for high availability and reliable storage, so they can be deployed across a cluster that has enough capacity for many projects. The CI server can be run as a shared service or as a separate instance for each team or project.

I covered running a private registry in a Docker container in Chapter 4, Pushing and Pulling Images from Docker Registries. Here, I'll look at running a Git server and a CI server in Docker.

Packaging a Git server into a Windows Docker image

Bonobo is a popular open source Git server. It's written in ASP.NET using the full .NET Framework, and you can easily package it as a Docker image based on Windows Server Core. Bonobo is a simple Git server; it provides remote repository access over HTTP and HTTPS, and it has a web UI. It supports integrated Windows authentication, but I won't cover...