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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

Instrumentation in Dockerized applications


Debugging your app is what you do when the logic doesn't work as expected and you're trying to track down what's going wrong. You don't debug in production, so you need your app to record its behavior in order to help you trace any problems that occur.

Instrumentation is often neglected, but it should be a crucial component of your development, as it's the best way to understand the health and activity of your app in production. Running your app in Docker provides new opportunities for centralized logging and instrumentation, so you can get a consistent view across the different parts of your application even if they use different languages and platforms.

Instrumentation with Prometheus

The ecosystem around Docker is very large and active, taking advantage of the open standards and extensibility of the platform. As the ecosystem has matured, a few technologies have emerged as strong candidates for inclusion in most Dockerized applications.

Prometheus...