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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

Configure VM for remote connectivity


The essence of a successful product delivery lies in automation; the amount of work that can be completely automated decides how much faster we can deliver. As part of automation we should certainly include configuration of resources, which include dependency installations, firewall or network port configuration, storage allocation, and so on. These factors shorten the time for delivery and ensure error-free code if tried and tested rigorously. Therefore, infrastructure automation is the epitome of success for any product delivery chain. With the above section, we have achieved some automation by being able to automatically create the required resources for our deployment. In this section, we will see how to remotely connect to those Azure VMs and enable remote PowerShell so that we can deploy Music Store onto a remote Docker host without establishing a remote desktop session which is a manual step.

Enabling remote PowerShell on Azure ARM VM is a multi...