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Docker on Windows

By : Elton Stoneman
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Docker on Windows

By: Elton Stoneman

Overview of this book

Docker is a platform for running server applications in lightweight units called containers. You can run Docker on Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10, and run your existing apps in containers to get significant improvements in efficiency, security, and portability. This book teaches you all you need to know about Docker on Windows, from 101 to deploying highly-available workloads in production. This book takes you on a Docker journey, starting with the key concepts and simple examples of how to run .NET Framework and .NET Core apps in Windows Docker containers. Then it moves on to more complex examples—using Docker to modernize the architecture and development of traditional ASP.NET and SQL Server apps. The examples show you how to break up monoliths into distributed apps and deploy them to a clustered environment in the cloud, using the exact same artifacts you use to run them locally. To help you move confidently to production, it then explains Docker security, and the management and support options. The book finishes with guidance on getting started with Docker in your own projects, together with 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 (20 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

Designing CI/CD with Docker


The pipeline will support full continuous integration—when developers push code to the shared source repository, which will trigger a build that produces a release candidate. The release candidates will be tagged Docker images 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 the public QA environment.

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

  • Source control: Bonobo, a simple open source Git server written in ASP.NET
  • Build server: Jenkins, a Java-based automation tool using plugins to support many workflows
  • Build agent: MSBuild packaged into a Docker image to compile code in a container
  • Test agent: NUnit packaged into a Docker image to run integration or end-to-end...