Containers is the next breakthrough in building modern and cloud based applications, comparing it with its predecessors like VM virtualization one would realize that containerization is the fastest, most resource-efficient, scalable, and secure way of building application hosting environments we know so far. Learning Windows Server Containers take you through a long and profound journey of building containerized ASP.NET applications on latest windows server platforms using Docker command line and Docker REST API. The book shows you how to build and ship containers from one environment to other with less hassle during the continuous integration and delivery process. You will learn to build containerized applications using scalable storage containers, cache containers with isolation levels like in VMs. The book helps you build an ecosystem of container hosts, manage composite container deployments, and resource governance.
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Learning Windows Server Containers
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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 (13 chapters)
Preface
Exploring Virtualization
Deploying First Container
Working with Container Images
Developing Container Applications
Deploying Container Applications
Storage Volumes
Redis Cache Containers
Container Network
Continuous Integration and Delivery
Manage Resource Allocation and REST API
Composite Containers and Clustering
Nano Server
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