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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

Securing the software supply chain with DTR

DTR is the second part of Docker's extended EE offering. (I covered Universal Control Plane (UCP) in Chapter 8, Administering and Monitoring Dockerized Solutions.) DTR is a private Docker registry that adds an important piece to the overall security story of the Docker platform: a secure software supply chain.

You can digitally sign Docker images with DTR, and DTR lets you configure who can push and pull images, securely storing all the digital signatures that users have applied to an image. It also works in conjunction with UCP to enforce content trust. With Docker Content Trust, you can set up your cluster so that it only runs containers from images that have been signed by specific users or teams.

This is a powerful feature that meets the audit requirements for a lot of regulated industries. There may be requirements for a company...