You should know by now that the industry is up for a major shift on how we provision environments, it is time to divide and rule, split your application into multiple sustainable containers and scale at large using cutting edge cloud hosting providers. Well, we might have solved large part of the virtualization problems; there is still an unsolved problem. Containers live on a host and Windows Server 2016 is a bulky OS. There might be few features of the server which you might not even care, but you might have to regularly patch them and maintain the server, or worse the host restarts kill the application(s). So, why can't we just have what we need for the application to run? Bare minimum features which reduces the surface area, less maintenance and less fuss. You will be amazed to know that Microsoft is also thinking on the same lines. Microsoft's new Nano Server, the topic of this chapter is a much scaled down version of the Windows Server to server the ever-increasing...
Learning Windows Server Containers
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.
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Learning Windows Server Containers
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewer
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Preface
Free Chapter
Exploring Virtualization
Deploying First Container
Working with Container Images
Developing Container Applications
Deploying Container Applications
Storage Volumes
Redis Cache Containers
Container Network
Continuous Integration and Delivery
Manage Resource Allocation and REST API
Composite Containers and Clustering
Nano Server
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