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Learning Windows Server Containers

By : Machiraju

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Learning Windows Server Containers

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By: Machiraju

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.

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Free Chapter

Exploring Virtualization

Exploring Virtualization

Microsoft's history of virtualization

Understanding virtualization levels

Limitations of virtualization

Introduction to containerization

Introduction to Windows Server Containers

Hyper-V Containers

Windows Server Containers on Azure

Comparing containerization and VM virtualization

Cluster management

Tooling support

Who else is working with containers?

Summary

Deploying First Container

Deploying First Container

Preparing the development environment

Windows Server Containers development

Running web application in Docker

Summary

Working with Container Images

Working with Container Images

Listing images

Searching images

docker pull

docker run

docker build

Docker tags

docker commit

docker exec

docker push

Cleaning up containers or images

Summary

Developing Container Applications

Developing Container Applications

Setting up the development environment

Understanding .NET Core and ASP.NET Core

Developing an ASP.NET Core application

Developing ASP.NET 4.5 applications as Windows Server Containers

Windows Server Container networking

Summary

Deploying Container Applications

Deploying Container Applications

Deploy Azure VMs using ARM

Configure VM for remote connectivity

Configuring remote Docker host

Deploying containers remotely

Configuring load balancer

Deploy Hyper-V Containers

Dangling images

Summary

Storage Volumes

Storage Volumes

Storage volumes

Relational databases and SQL Server container

Music Store—store data using SQL Server container

Summary

Redis Cache Containers

Redis Cache Containers

Creating Redis Cache container

Operating Redis Cache containers

Persistent Redis containers

Master-slave configuration

Integrating Redis containers with Music Store

Summary

Container Network

Container Network

Introduction to Windows networking

Configuring container networks

Networking modes

Multiple container networks

Container network routing

Multi-subnet deployment of Music Store

Managing Docker networks using Windows PowerShell for Docker

Summary

Continuous Integration and Delivery

Continuous Integration and Delivery

Introduction to Visual Studio Team Services

Continuous integration

Continuous delivery

Testing CI/CD

Summary

Manage Resource Allocation and REST API

Manage Resource Allocation and REST API

Container resource allocation

Insights and telemetry

Optimizing Dockerfiles

Docker REST API

Docker .NET SDK

Summary

Composite Containers and Clustering

Composite Containers and Clustering

Orchestrating multi-container deployment using docker-compose

A docker-compose file reference

Docker CLI options

Docker Swarm architecture

Setting up a swarm cluster

Docker Swarm features

Summary

Nano Server

Nano Server

A brief introduction to Nano Server

Benefits of running workloads on Nano Server

Provisioning Nano Server on Azure

Provisioning Nano Server on Windows 10

Package management

Deploy .NET Core applications on Nano Server

Configuration management using PowerShell DSC

Nano containers

Summary

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Deploying First Container

Containerization helps you build software in layers, containers inspire distributed development, packaging, and publishing in the form of containers. Developers or IT administrators just have to choose a base OS image, create customized layers as per their requirements, and distribute using public or private repositories. Microsoft and Docker together have provided an amazing toolset that helps you build and deploy containers in no time. It is very easy to set up a dev/test environment as well. Microsoft Windows Server OS or Windows 10 Desktop OS comes with Plug and Play (PnP) features for running Windows Server Containers or Hyper-V Containers. Docker Hub, a public repository for images, serves as a huge catalog of customized images built by community or Docker enthusiasts. The images on Docker Hub are freely available for anyone to download, customize, and distribute.

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