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Mastering Docker on Windows

Mastering Docker on Windows

By : Michael D. Smith
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Mastering Docker on Windows

Mastering Docker on Windows

By: Michael D. Smith

Overview of this book

Mastering Docker on Windows is your comprehensive guide to deploying, securing, and scaling containers in enterprise-grade Windows environments. Tailored for developers, DevOps engineers, and IT professionals, this book dives deep into Docker’s advanced features, focusing on Windows 11. Starting with installation and setup, you’ll learn how to manage images, networks, and volumes on Windows. The book explores multi-container orchestration with Docker Compose, container security best practices, and performance optimization techniques to ensure your applications run efficiently and securely in production. You’ll also explore advanced topics such as running Docker in hybrid cloud environments and deploying AI/ML models using the Docker GenAI stack. Through practical examples and step-by-step tutorials, you’ll gain the skills to troubleshoot, monitor, and fine-tune Docker environments at scale. Throughout the book, you’ll build and evolve a small but realistic application stack that carries across chapters. Whether you're modernizing enterprise Windows workloads or building scalable, cloud-native applications, this book provides hands-on strategies and expert insights to help you master Docker on Windows. It’s ideal for readers with basic Docker experience who want to elevate their skills for real-world, enterprise success.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Part 1: Getting Started with Docker on Windows 11
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Part 2: Advanced Docker Techniques on Windows
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Part 3: Docker in Real-World Use Cases
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Other Books You May Enjoy
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Docker Security and Best Practices on Windows

Once you start relying on containers to run meaningful parts of your workflow, it becomes less about just getting things running and more about keeping them secure, stable, and intentional. Whether you're building your own images or running ones from elsewhere, understanding what those containers can do, what they have access to, and how they're isolated from the host becomes essential. Let's explore how Docker handles security by default, what parts you need to take control of yourself, and how to build up confidence that your containers are behaving exactly as you expect, and nothing more.

We'll cover the following topics:

  • Understanding Docker security
  • Managing user access and permissions
  • Securing Docker images and containers
  • Implementing isolation with namespaces
  • Monitoring security and auditing containers

Before we start tightening anything, we need a clear picture of what Docker actually does to protect you by...

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