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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

Creating Redis Cache container


Redis is an open-licensed (BSD licensed: http://redis.io/topics/license) software which can be used not just as a cache server but also as a data store and messaging platform. Apart from a mere key-value cache store, Redis supports complex data structures like hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets with range queries, bitmaps, hyperlogs, and geospatial indexes with radius queries. Redis comes with built-in replication, so we can configure one master and multiple slaves for high availability. Redis also offers various tools to manage Redis containers like Redis Sentinel which helps in configuration and monitoring related activities. Redis Desktop Manager is a GUI tool for managing data stored in Redis Cache databases.

There is no officially supported version of Redis on Windows. Microsoft Open Tech group developers maintain a Redis version for Windows 64/32-bit machines.

Note

For building 32-bit versions, download the source from GitHub repository and build. For instructions...