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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

Continuous delivery


Continuous delivery is the software engineering approach of extending the continuous integration pipeline to deploy the build output (or build drop) on an environment. Traditionally, every application's delivery pipeline consists of multiple stages, such as development, integration, UAT, and production. At each stage the build drop or build output goes through multiple stages of testing and finally release to production. Each stage/environment has a team responsible for validating the environment after applying the new update by running through multiple categories of tests, like acceptance tests, regression tests, integration tests, functional tests, load tests and performance tests. Continuous delivery makes the routine affair of deployments easy: by defining deployment in terms of code and configuration, we are making it less error prone and more predictable.

VSTS allows you to automate your release pipeline using the VSTS release management feature available under the...