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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

Introduction to Visual Studio Team Services 


Continuous integration and continuous delivery is a process which requires lots of tools and processes such as an online code repository for developers to submit code, version control, agents to build code every time a developer submits code to the repository, and finally a release agent which can deploy code to multiple environments. Apart from these, the management team would also need a reporting platform and dashboard which depict the status of development day-to-day. VSTS (formerly Visual Studio Online) is one tool which provides all the features described here, plus many more. VSTS integrates seamlessly with Visual Studio IDE creating a perfect development environment for our team. We can write code in any language and build applications targeting any platform. Since VSTS is a code repository and a build tool it can also be integrated with many application development tools used for any other language, such as Eclipse, Xcode, IntelliJ, Visual...