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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)
Free Chapter
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Section 1: Understanding Docker and Windows Containers
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Section 2: Designing and Building Containerized Solutions
10
Section 3: Preparing for Docker in Production
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Section 4: Getting Started on Your Container Journey

Summary

In this chapter I introduced Docker, an application platform which can run new and old apps in lightweight units of compute called containers. Companies are moving to Docker for efficiency, security, and portability. I covered the following topics:

  • How Docker works on Windows and how containers are licensed.
  • The key Docker concepts: images, registries, containers, and orchestrators.
  • The options to run Docker on Windows 10, Windows Server 2019, or Azure.

If you're planning to work along with the code samples in the rest of the book, you should have a working Docker environment by now. In Chapter 2, Packaging and Running Applications as Docker Containers, I'll move onto packaging more complex apps as Docker images and show how to manage states in containers with Docker volumes.