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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


Large and small companies all over the world are moving to Docker on Windows and Linux. Some of the main drivers are efficiency, security, and portability. Many new projects are designed from the ground up using containers, but there are many more existing projects that would benefit from the move to Docker.

In this chapter I've looked at migrating existing apps to Docker on Windows, recommending that you start with an application you know well. A short, time-boxed PoC for Dockerizing that app will quickly show you how your app looks in Docker. The outcome of that PoC will help you understand what you need to do next and who you need to involve to get that PoC moved into production.

I finished with some very different cases studies, showing you how you can introduce Docker in existing projects. In one case, I used Docker primarily for the packaging benefits in order to run a monolithic app without changing it, but to power clean upgrades for future releases. In another case, I took...