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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

Chapter 5. Adopting Container-First Solution Design

Adopting Docker as your application platform brings clear operational benefits. Containers are a much lighter unit of compute than virtual machines, but they still provide isolation, so you can run more workloads on less hardware. All these workloads have the same shape in Docker, so operations teams can manage .NET, Java, Go, and Node.js applications in the same way. The Docker platform also has benefits in application architecture. In this chapter, I'll look at how container-first solution design helps you add features to your application with high quality and low risk.

I'll be returning to NerdDinner in this chapter, picking up from where I left off in Chapter 3, Developing Dockerized .NET and .NET Core Applications. NerdDinner is a traditional .NET application, a monolithic design with tight coupling between components, where all communication is synchronous. There is no unit testing, integration testing, or end-to-end testing. NerdDinner...