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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

CaaS with Docker Enterprise

Docker Enterprise is the commercial edition from Docker, Inc. It's a complete CaaS platform and makes full use of Docker to provide a single pane of glass to manage any number of containers running on any number of hosts.

Docker Enterprise is a production-grade product that you run on a cluster of machines in your data center or in the cloud. The clustering functionality supports multiple orchestrators, Kubernetes, as well as Docker Swarm. In production, you could have a 100-node cluster using the exact same application platform as your development laptop running as a single-node cluster.

There are two parts to Docker Enterprise. There's the Docker Trusted Registry (DTR), which is like running your own private instance of Docker Hub, complete with image signing and security scanning. I'll cover DTR in Chapter 9, Understanding the Security...