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Docker on Windows

Docker on Windows

By : Elton Stoneman
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Docker on Windows

Docker on Windows

4.4 (14)
By: Elton Stoneman

Overview of this book

Docker is a platform for running server applications in lightweight units called containers. You can run Docker on Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10, and run your existing apps in containers to get significant improvements in efficiency, security, and portability. This book teaches you all you need to know about Docker on Windows, from 101 to deploying highly-available workloads in production. This book takes you on a Docker journey, starting with the key concepts and simple examples of how to run .NET Framework and .NET Core apps in Windows Docker containers. Then it moves on to more complex examples—using Docker to modernize the architecture and development of traditional ASP.NET and SQL Server apps. The examples show you how to break up monoliths into distributed apps and deploy them to a clustered environment in the cloud, using the exact same artifacts you use to run them locally. To help you move confidently to production, it then explains Docker security, and the management and support options. The book finishes with guidance on getting started with Docker in your own projects, together with some real-world case studies for Docker implementations, from small-scale on-premises apps to very large-scale apps running on Azure.
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Managing containers with Windows tools


Many of the administration tools in Windows are able to manage services running on remote machines. IIS Manager, Server Manager, and, of course, SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) can all be connected to a remote server on the network for inspection and administration.

Docker containers are different from remote machines, but they can be set up to allow remote access from these tools. Typically, you need to explicitly set up access for the tool by exposing management ports, enabling Windows features, and running PowerShell cmdlets. This can all be done in the Dockerfile for your application, and I'll cover the setup steps for each of these tools.

Being able to use familiar tools can be helpful, but there are limits to what you should do with them; remember, containers are meant to be disposable. If you connect to a web application container with IIS Manager and tweak the app pool settings, that tweak will be lost when you update the app with a new container...

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