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Docker on Windows

By : Elton Stoneman
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Docker on Windows

By: Elton Stoneman

Overview of this book

Docker is a platform for running server applications in lightweight units called containers. You can run Docker on Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10, and run your existing apps in containers to get significant improvements in efficiency, security, and portability. This book teaches you all you need to know about Docker on Windows, from 101 to deploying highly-available workloads in production. This book takes you on a Docker journey, starting with the key concepts and simple examples of how to run .NET Framework and .NET Core apps in Windows Docker containers. Then it moves on to more complex examples—using Docker to modernize the architecture and development of traditional ASP.NET and SQL Server apps. The examples show you how to break up monoliths into distributed apps and deploy them to a clustered environment in the cloud, using the exact same artifacts you use to run them locally. To help you move confidently to production, it then explains Docker security, and the management and support options. The book finishes with guidance on getting started with Docker in your own projects, together with 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 (20 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

CaaS with Docker EE


Docker EE is the commercial edition from Docker, Inc. and the standard and advanced options come with the management suite called Docker Datacenter (DDC). DDC is Docker's CaaS platform and makes full use of Docker to provide a single pane of glass to manage any number of containers running on any number of hosts.

DDC is an enterprise-grade product that you run on a cluster of machines in your data center or in the cloud. The clustering functionality uses Docker swarm mode, so in production, you could have a 100-node cluster using the exact same application platform as your development laptop running as a single-node swarm.

There are two parts to DDC. There's the Docker Trusted Registry (DTR), which is like running your own private instance of Docker Hub, complete with image signing and security scanning. I'll cover DTR in Chapter 9, Understanding the Security Risks and Benefits of Docker, when I look at security in Docker. The administration component is called UCP, and...