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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

Chapter 4. Pushing and Pulling Images from Docker Registries

Shipping applications is an integral part of the Docker platform. The Docker service can download images from a central location to run containers from them, and also upload images that were built locally to a central location. These shared image stores are called registries, and in this chapter I'll look more closely at how image registries work and the type of registries that are available to you.

The primary image registry is Docker Hub, which is a free online service and is the default location for the Docker service to work with images. Docker Hub is a great place for the community to share images built to package open source software that is free to redistribute. Docker Hub has been hugely successful. At the time of writing this book, there are over 600,000 images available on the Hub, with over 12 billion downloads between them.

A public registry may not be suitable for your own applications. Docker Cloud is an alternative...