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Docker on Windows - Second Edition

By : Elton Stoneman
Book Image

Docker on Windows - Second Edition

By: Elton Stoneman

Overview of this book

Docker on Windows, Second Edition teaches you all you need to know about Docker on Windows, from the 101 to running highly-available workloads in production. You’ll be guided through a Docker journey, starting with the key concepts and simple examples of .NET Framework and .NET Core apps in Docker containers on Windows. Then you’ll learn how to use Docker to modernize the architecture and development of traditional ASP.NET and SQL Server apps. The examples show you how to break up legacy monolithic applications into distributed apps and deploy them to a clustered environment in the cloud, using the exact same artifacts you use to run them locally. You’ll see how to build a CI/CD pipeline which uses Docker to compile, package, test and deploy your applications. To help you move confidently to production, you’ll learn about Docker security, and the management and support options. The book finishes with guidance on getting started with Docker in your own projects. You’ll walk through 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 (18 chapters)
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Section 1: Understanding Docker and Windows Containers
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Section 2: Designing and Building Containerized Solutions
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Section 3: Preparing for Docker in Production
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Section 4: Getting Started on Your Container Journey

Managing containers with Docker tools

You've seen that you can use existing Windows tools to administer containers, but what you can do with these tools doesn't always apply in the Docker world. A container will run a single web application, so the hierarchy navigation of IIS Manager isn't really helpful. Checking event logs in the server manager can be useful, but it is much more useful to relay entries to the console, so they can be surfaced from the Docker API.

Your application images also need to be set up explicitly to enable access to remote management tools, exposing ports, adding users, and running additional Windows services. All this adds to the attack surface of your running container. You should see these existing tools as useful in debugging in development and test environments, but they're not really suitable for production.

The Docker platform...