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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

Powering a Continuous Deployment Pipeline with Docker

Docker supports building and running software in components that can be easily distributed and managed. The platform also lends itself to development environments, where source control, build servers, build agents, and test agents can all be run in Docker containers from standard images.

Using Docker for development lets you consolidate many projects in a single set of hardware while maintaining isolation. You could have services running a Git server and an image registry with high availability in Docker Swarm, shared by many projects. Each project could have a dedicated build server configured with their own pipeline and their own build setup, running in a lightweight Docker container.

Setting up a new project in this environment is simply a case of creating a new repository in the source control repository and a new namespace...