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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

docker pull


Once you figure out which image you would like to work with, you can download the image locally by using the docker pull command:

By default, the latest tag or version is pulled from the Docker Hub.

Note

Image tagging or versions will be explained in more detail in the following sections.

Docker images are made up of multiple layers; each layer is marked with a unique identifier. When a user types docker pull, the Docker daemon downloads layers in parallel and extracts them onto your local computer. Docker is smart enough to pull only those layers that are not present on the local computer.

For example, in the preceding command, docker pull microsoft/iis, the image named microsoft/iis is made using windowsservercore as the base OS, when it is downloaded to the container host the Docker daemon pulls all the layers, but not the windowsservercore base OS image. This is because the Docker daemon is intelligent enough to identify the layers or base OS images that are already present on...