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Docker on Windows - Second Edition

By : Elton Stoneman
Book Image

Docker on Windows - Second Edition

By: Elton Stoneman

Overview of this book

Docker on Windows, Second Edition teaches you all you need to know about Docker on Windows, from the 101 to running highly-available workloads in production. You’ll be guided through a Docker journey, starting with the key concepts and simple examples of .NET Framework and .NET Core apps in Docker containers on Windows. Then you’ll learn how to use Docker to modernize the architecture and development of traditional ASP.NET and SQL Server apps. The examples show you how to break up legacy monolithic applications into distributed apps and deploy them to a clustered environment in the cloud, using the exact same artifacts you use to run them locally. You’ll see how to build a CI/CD pipeline which uses Docker to compile, package, test and deploy your applications. To help you move confidently to production, you’ll learn about Docker security, and the management and support options. The book finishes with guidance on getting started with Docker in your own projects. You’ll walk through some real-world case studies for Docker implementations, from small-scale on-premises apps to very large-scale apps running on Azure.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
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Section 1: Understanding Docker and Windows Containers
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Section 2: Designing and Building Containerized Solutions
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Section 3: Preparing for Docker in Production
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Section 4: Getting Started on Your Container Journey

Designing CI/CD with Docker

The pipeline will support full continuous integration. When developers push code to the shared source repository, that will trigger a build that produces a release candidate. The release candidates will be tagged Docker images that are stored in a local registry. The CI workflow deploys the solution from the built images as containers and runs an end-to-end test pack.

My sample pipeline has a manual quality gate. If the tests pass, the image versions are made publicly available on Docker Hub, and the pipeline can start a rolling upgrade in a public environment running on a remote Docker Swarm. In a full CI/CD environment, you can automate the deployment to production in your pipeline, too.

The stages of the pipeline will all be powered by software running in Docker containers:

  • Source control: Gogs, a simple open source Git server written in Go
  • Build...