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Learning Windows Server Containers

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Learning Windows Server Containers

Overview of this book

Windows Server Containers are independent, isolated, manageable and portable application environments which are light weight and shippable. Decomposing your application into smaller manageable components or MicroServices helps in building scalable and distributed application environments. Windows Server Containers have a significant impact on application developers, development operations (DevOps) and infrastructure management teams. Applications can be built, shipped and deployed in a fast-paced manner on an easily manageable and updatable environment. Learning Windows Server Containers teaches you to build simple to advanced production grade container based application using Asp.Net Core, Visual Studio, Azure, Docker and PowerShell technologies. The book teaches you to build and deploy simple web applications as Windows and Hyper-V containers on Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 on Azure. You will learn to build on top of Windows Container Base OS Images, integrate with existing images from Docker Hub, create custom images and publish to Hub. You will also learn to work with storage containers built using Volumes and SQL Server as container, create and configure custom networks, integrate with Redis Cache containers, configure continuous integration and deployment pipelines using VSTS and Git Repository. Further you can also learn to manage resources for a container, setting up monitoring and diagnostics, deploy composite container environments using Docker Compose on Windows and manage container clusters using Docker Swarm. The last chapter of the book focuses on building applications using Microsoft’s new and thinnest server platform – Nano Servers.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Searching images


If users want to create a new Windows Server Container, they need not start from scratch. There are ample images that are already built, which you can pick as your starting point. But how do you know which images are available? This is where docker search will be really helpful. The docker search command helps you search images from the docker public repository. It helps you find popular images using the star rating and also filtering images by the official flag, which ascertains great quality and trust. docker search is used to search the images from any remote repository. docker search needs a bare minimum of one parameter, which is the Docker image name:

docker search [searchcriteria]

The following screenshot shows the result of docker search:

By default, the list returns the top 25 images with truncated descriptions. docker search also comes with flags or options that help enhance the search criteria. For example, docker search -no-trunc helps you to list images with non...