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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

Containerize What You Know - Guidance for Implementing Docker

In this book I have used older .NET technologies for the sample applications to show you that Docker works just as well with them as it does with modern .NET Core apps. You can Dockerize a ten year old WebForms application and get many of the same benefits you get from running a greenfield ASP.NET Core web application in a container.

You've seen lots of examples of containerized applications and learned how to build, ship, and run production-grade apps with Docker. Now, you're ready to start working with Docker on your own projects, and this chapter gives you advice on how to get started.

I'll cover some techniques and tools that will help you run a proof-of-concept project to move an application to Docker. I'll also walk you through some case studies to show you how I've introduced Docker to...