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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

Configuring container networks


Windows Container network management stack can be managed using Docker commands or Docker PowerShell. Docker also exposes a REST API which can be used to manage the stack (we will learn about interacting with REST API in next chapter). We can also connect to a remote Docker host using remote connection as explained in the earlier chapters.

The following are a few commands which can be used while managing container networks using the Docker command line:

docker network

Docker creates default nat network when the service starts, the list of available networks on a Docker host can be found out using the docker network ls command as shown in the following screenshot:

The default network configuration of the host can be found out by inspecting the network using the docker network inspect <network_name> as shown in the following screenshot. The following command shows the subnet (172.30.16.0/20) and gateway IPs of the NAT network which are used by container by...