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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

Summary


The following topics are covered in this chapter:

  • This chapter helps developers understand various commands and options available while building Windows Server Containers.
  • Docker command line or PowerShell versions (yet to be released) communicate with a common API called Docker Remote API.
  • Docker Hub is the public repository for storing Windows Server images (and Linux-based images too). Docker Hub provides one private repository for free. For better security users can also host their own private repositories.
  • Users can start Windows Server Container development by using any existing image on Docker Hub as base image; a few examples are microsoft/windowsservercore, microsoft/redis, microsoft/iis, and so on.
  • A Docker image is made up of layers. Each layer has a unique ID.
  • docker pull can be used to download images from Docker Hub or any remote repository to Docker host. The Docker daemon does not download the layers that are already present on the host.
  • A new Windows Server image can be...