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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

Cleaning up containers or images


Obsolete containers or images occupy space, you might want to clean up images or containers from the host to clean up space or to install and run new ones. Docker provides the following options for cleanup:

  • docker stop: docker stop can be used to stop a running container. A container cannot be removed unless it is in the stopped state. You can use the -f or -force option to force stop a container:
docker stop [container id/name] -f
docker stop $(docker ps -a -q) # stops all the containers
  • docker rm: docker rm can be used to remove a stopped container. docker rm can be concatenated with other listing commands for a consolidated operation as follows:
docker rm [container id/name] -force #removes
       container by id or name
docker rm $(docker ps -a -q) #deletes all stopped
       containers
  • docker rmi: docker rmi can be used to remove an image from the container host using the image id, name, tag, or digest value. If an image has multiple tags all the tagged images...