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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 6. Organizing Distributed Solutions with Docker Compose

Shipping software is an integral part of the Docker platform. The public registries on Docker Hub, Docker Cloud, and Docker Store make it easy to design a distributed solution using tried-and-tested components. In the previous chapter, I showed how to integrate these components into your own solution, taking a container-first design approach. The end result is a distributed solution with several moving parts. In this chapter, you'll learn how to organize all those moving parts into one unit using Docker Compose.

Docker Compose is another open source product from Docker, Inc., which extends the Docker ecosystem. The Docker Command Line Interface (CLI) and Docker API work on individual resources, such as images and containers. Docker Compose works on a higher level of services applications. An application is a single unit composed of multiple resources, which are Docker containers, networks, and volumes at runtime. You use compose...