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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

Summary


In this chapter, we have learned to create container host environments on Azure using automation and to configure it to be used as a remote container host. The following is a summary of what we have learned in this chapter:

  • Azure ARM provides a fool-proof way of creating Windows Container hosts using configuration driven automation
  • Windows Container hosts can be configured for remote connectivity using secure/non-secure connection types
  • For configuring a secured connection we need OpenSSL and CA server
  • Docker provides multiple isolation options called Windows Containers (default) and Hyper-v Containers using the same client and server process
  • Specifying the isolation type is a runtime decision
  • Hyper-V Containers provide greater isolation and have high boot times
  • Hyper-V Containers are not VMs, so they cannot be managed using traditional Hyper-V tools
  • There are good and bad intermediate/dangling images, bad images occupy space on the container host and hence should be deleted manually on...