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

Running Docker on Windows

It's easy to install Docker on Windows 10, using Docker Desktop – a Windows package that sets up all the prerequisites, deploys the latest version of the Docker Community Engine, and gives you a UI with some useful options to manage image repositories and remote clusters.

In production, you should ideally use Windows Server 2019 Core, the installation with no UI. This reduces the attack surface and the amount of Windows updates your server will need. If you move all your apps to Docker, you won't need any other Windows features installed; you'll just have Docker Engine running as a Windows service.

I'll walk through both of these installation options and show you a third option using a VM in Azure, which is useful if you want to try Docker but don't have access to Windows 10 or Windows Server 2019.

There is a fantastic...