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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)
Free Chapter
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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

Docker and Windows containers

Docker was originally developed on Linux, taking advantage of core Linux features, but making it simple and efficient to use containers for application workloads. Microsoft saw the potential and worked closely with the Docker engineering team to bring the same functionality to Windows.

Windows Server 2016 was the first version of Windows built to run Docker containers; Windows Server 2019 continues the innovation with significantly improved features and performance for Windows containers. You can run the same Docker containers on Windows 10 for development and testing that you run on Windows Server in production. Right now, you can only run Windows applications in containers on Windows, but Microsoft is adding support for Linux application containers to run on Windows too.

The first thing you need to know is that there is no integration between containers...