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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

Summary


This chapter looked at troubleshooting applications running in containers, along with debugging and instrumentation. Docker is a new application platform, but applications in containers run as processes on the host, so they're still suitable targets for remote debugging and centralized monitoring.

Support for Docker is available in all the current versions of Visual Studio. Visual Studio 2017 has complete support, covering Linux and Windows containers. Visual Studio 2015 and Visual Studio Code currently have extensions that provide debugging for Linux containers, but you can easily add your own support for Windows containers.

In this chapter, I also introduced Prometheus, a lightweight instrumentation and monitoring component that you can run in a Windows Docker container. Prometheus stores the metrics it extracts from applications running on other containers. The standardized nature of containers makes monitoring solutions such as these very simple to configure.

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