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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

Deploy Hyper-V Containers


Business or IT administrators need a highly available and quickly creatable environment with the highest security. Though Windows Server Containers are easily to spin up and can guarantee high-availability, they cannot be used to host mission critical or highly secure environments. Because they all share the same kernel shell, any malware attacks on the OS easily pass through the container and will impact the applications as well. So Microsoft built another variation of the container technology called Hyper-V Containers (Linux containers have only one type of isolation). Unlike Windows Server Containers, Hyper-V have their own OS, and nothing is shared across co-existing containers, so therefore they are more secure than the shared containers. Microsoft also added a great benefit by partnering with Docker: the same Docker commands can be used to build, run or test any Windows Container images.

Also, note that, while Hyper-V is the runtime technology powering Hyper...