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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
10
Section 3: Preparing for Docker in Production
14
Section 4: Getting Started on Your Container Journey

Understanding security in swarm mode

Docker's security-in-depth approach covers the whole software life cycle, from image signing and scanning at build time through to container isolation and management at runtime. I'll end this chapter with an overview of the security features that are implemented in swarm mode.

Distributed software offers a lot of attractive attack vectors. Communication between components can be intercepted and modified. Rogue agents can join the network and gain access to data or run workloads. Distributed data stores can be compromised. Docker swarm mode, which is built on top of the open source SwarmKit project, addresses these vectors at a platform level so that your application is running on a secure base by default.

Nodes and join tokens

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