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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

Developing an ASP.NET Core application


The remainder of this chapter will teach you how to deploy the ASP.NET Core application as a Windows Server Container. The sample application that we will be using in this chapter is called Music Store. It teaches you how to convert an ASP.NET Core application into a Docker image by applying custom PowerShell scripts for building, publishing, and integrating them with Visual Studio so that application development and testing become seamless. In our example, we will be using a Kestrel server to host the application inside the container. The later chapters describe the steps for integration with code repositories like the Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) system, which comes with great automation features like continuous integration and deployment. VSTS helps publish the image to Docker Hub and onto dev, test, or user acceptance testing (UAT) environments automatically as and when any modifications are made by the developer team to the central code repository...