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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

About the Reviewer

Romeo Mlinar has been working as Microsoft Senior System Engineer. Professionally connected with computer technology for more than a decade. Passionately devoted with Microsoft products and technology, for instance, system center, planning and design of Active Directory, as well as Windows Server services, devoting special attention to virtualization (Hyper-V), which is his recent preoccupation. He bears large number of Microsoft industrial certificates. Since 2012, he is Microsoft's Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Cloud and Datacenter Management. He is a regular speaker at various IT conferences in the region and abroad. Also, he is an IT Pro and Edu IT Pro User Group lead in Zagreb, Croatia. He spends his free time with people from the IT world, acquiring new knowledge, eagerly sharing it with others, while at the same time enjoying his life with his family.

He blogs at: http://blog.mlinar.biz/.

He was also a reviewer on Hyper-V 2016 Best Practices written by Romain Serre and Benedict Berger.

I would like to thank my wife Ana and to my lovely son Vito, for their kind and full support, their understanding, and encouragement. Without you guys I could not have followed my passion. You are the source of my inspiration and happiness.