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Mastering Docker, Fourth Edition - Fourth Edition

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Mastering Docker, Fourth Edition - Fourth Edition

Overview of this book

Docker has been a game changer when it comes to how modern applications are deployed and created. It has now grown into a key driver of innovation beyond system administration, with a significant impact on the world of web development. Mastering Docker shows you how you can ensure that you're keeping up with the innovations it's driving and be sure you're using it to its full potential. This fourth edition not only demonstrates how to use Docker more effectively but also helps you rethink and reimagine what you can achieve with it. You'll start by building, managing, and storing images along with exploring best practices for working with Docker confidently. Once you've got to grips with Docker security, the book covers essential concepts for extending and integrating Docker in new and innovative ways. You'll also learn how to take control of your containers efficiently using Docker Compose, Docker Swarm, and Kubernetes. By the end of this Docker book, you’ll have a broad yet detailed sense of what's possible with Docker and how seamlessly it fits in with a range of other platforms and tools.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Section 1: Getting Up and Running with Docker
8
Section 2: Clusters and Clouds
16
Section 3: Best Practices

Running Windows containers

As already hinted at in the first part of this chapter, launching and interacting with Windows containers using the Docker command-line client is no different from what we have been running so far. Let’s test this by running the hello-world container, as follows:

$ docker container run hello-world

Just as before, this will download the hello-world container and return a message, as illustrated in the following screenshot:

Figure 7.5 – Running the Windows-based hello-world container

The only difference on this occasion is that rather than the Linux image, Docker pulled the windows-amd64 version of the image that is based on the nanoserver-sac2016 image.

Now, let’s look at running a container in the foreground, this time running PowerShell, as follows:

$ docker pull mcr.microsoft.com/windows/servercore
$ docker container run -it mcr.microsoft.com/windows/servercore:ltsc2019 powershell

Once your...