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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

Deploying updates with zero downtime


In swarm mode, Docker has two features that enable updates of the whole stack without application downtime--rolling updates and node draining. Rolling updates replace application containers with new instances from a new image--updates are staggered, so provided you have multiple replicas, there will always be tasks running to serve requests while other tasks are being upgraded.

Application updates will occur frequently, but less frequently, you will also need to update the host--either to upgrade Docker or to apply Windows patches. Docker supports draining a node, which means all the containers running on the node are stopped and no more will be scheduled. If the replica level drops for any services when the node is drained, tasks are started on other nodes. When the node is drained, you can update the host and then join it back into the swarm.

Load balancing across swarm nodes

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