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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 Docker swarm in the cloud


Docker has a minimal set of infrastructure requirements, so you can easily spin up a Docker host or a clustered Docker swarm in any cloud. All you need is the capacity to run Windows Server virtual machines and connect them on a network.

The cloud is a great place to run Docker, and Docker is a great way to move to the cloud. Docker gives you the power of a modern application platform without the restrictions of a Platform as a Service(PaaS) product. PaaS options typically have proprietary deployment systems, may need proprietary integrations in your code, and the dev experience will not use the same runtime.

Docker lets you package your applications and define your solution structure in a portable way that will run the same way on any machine and on any cloud. You can use basic Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) services, which all cloud providers support, and have a consistent deployment, management, and runtime experience in every environment. The Docker...