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Learn Docker in a Month of Lunches, Second Edition
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Learn Docker in a Month of Lunches, Second Edition

by Elton Stoneman
September 2025
Beginner to intermediate
488 pages
12h 55m
English
Manning Publications
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13 Replatforming the legacy: Packaging and running Windows apps in Docker

The cloud is where most companies want to run most of their workloads. Startups can build everything from scratch in Go or Rust, package all their components in Linux Docker images, and run them in containers on any cloud. Established companies don’t have it so easy—larger and older organizations have larger and older apps, and they’re likely to include products that only run on Windows. These legacy apps are often core to the business, and they want to move them to the cloud for the same scale and cost benefits that everyone wants. But rewriting them in the latest tech stack isn’t an option—we’re talking about the sort of apps that were designed a decade ago and now ...

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