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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

Dockerizing what you know

When you move to a new application platform, you have to work with a new set of artifacts and new operational processes. If you currently use the Windows installer for deployment, your artifacts are Wix files and MSIs. Your deployment process is to copy the MSI to the target server, log on, and run the installer.

After the move to Docker, you will have Dockerfiles and images as the deployment artifacts. You push the image to a registry and run a container or update a service to deploy the app. The resources and activities are simpler in Docker, and they'll be consistent between projects, but there's still a learning curve when you start.

Containerizing an app that you know well is a great way to provide a solid basis to that learning experience. When you first run your app in a container, you may see errors or incorrect behavior, but that will...