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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


In this chapter, I looked at the container-first solution design, making use of the Docker platform at design time to easily and safely add features to your application. I covered a feature-driven approach to modernizing an existing software project, which maximizes return on investment and gives clear visibility on progress.

The container-first approach to features lets you use production-grade software from Docker Hub or Docker Store to add capabilities to your solution, with official and certified images that are high-quality curated applications. You can add these off-the-shelf components, and focus on building small custom components to complete features. Your application will evolve to be loosely coupled, so individual elements can each have the most appropriate release cycle.

The speed of development in this chapter has outpaced operations, so we currently have a well-architected solution that is fragile to deploy. In the next chapter, I'll introduce Docker Compose, which provides...