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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


In this chapter, you learned what an image registry does and how you work with it using Docker. I covered repository names and image tagging to identify application versions or platform variations, and how to run and use a local registry server - running in a container.

Using a private registry is something you're likely to do quite early in your Docker journey. As you start to Dockerize existing applications and experiment with new software stacks, it may be useful to push and pull images across the fast local network - or use Docker Cloud if local storage space is an issue. As you use Docker more and progress to production implementation, you may have a roadmap to upgrade to DTR for a supported registry with rich security features.

Now that you have a good understanding on how to share images and use images shared by other people, you can look at bringing tried and trusted software components into our own applications with a container-first solution design.