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Learning Windows Server Containers

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Learning Windows Server Containers

Overview of this book

Windows Server Containers are independent, isolated, manageable and portable application environments which are light weight and shippable. Decomposing your application into smaller manageable components or MicroServices helps in building scalable and distributed application environments. Windows Server Containers have a significant impact on application developers, development operations (DevOps) and infrastructure management teams. Applications can be built, shipped and deployed in a fast-paced manner on an easily manageable and updatable environment. Learning Windows Server Containers teaches you to build simple to advanced production grade container based application using Asp.Net Core, Visual Studio, Azure, Docker and PowerShell technologies. The book teaches you to build and deploy simple web applications as Windows and Hyper-V containers on Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 on Azure. You will learn to build on top of Windows Container Base OS Images, integrate with existing images from Docker Hub, create custom images and publish to Hub. You will also learn to work with storage containers built using Volumes and SQL Server as container, create and configure custom networks, integrate with Redis Cache containers, configure continuous integration and deployment pipelines using VSTS and Git Repository. Further you can also learn to manage resources for a container, setting up monitoring and diagnostics, deploy composite container environments using Docker Compose on Windows and manage container clusters using Docker Swarm. The last chapter of the book focuses on building applications using Microsoft’s new and thinnest server platform – Nano Servers.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Setting up a swarm cluster


There are a couple of ways of setting up a swarm cluster. You can create a cluster using any virtualized environments like Hyper-V, virtual box. The number of hosts running in a swarm cluster will be restricted to the host's CPU and memory capacity. Traditionally on premise environments are setup using multiple physical nodes. The second way of setting up swarm environment is by using hosted environments like Azure or AWS. In this section, we will learn to setup a hybrid cluster with Linux and Windows container host. On Azure there are two approaches for creating a swarm cluster, one way is to use any pre-defined ARM template like the one available here: https://github.com/Azure/azure-quickstart-templates/tree/master/docker-swarm-cluster. This template deploys a swarm cluster on your Azure subscription with three swarm managers and a specified number of swarm nodes in the specified location of a resource group. The following diagram shows the cluster topology for...