Book description
Build, package, and deploy applications as easily manageable and shippable containers.
About This Book
Discover the secret to building highly portable apps that run on any machine with Windows Server 2016 anywhere, from laptops, desktop servers, and public or private clouds, without any changes to the code
Build your company cost-effective, container-based apps that support large-scale, virtual cloud environments
The most up-to-date help on the market, offering developers expert guidance in building and shipping high-quality apps, and also helping admins create infrastructure that's simple to maintain
Who This Book Is For
This book is for application developers with a basic programming knowledge of C#, ASP.NET, and PowerShell. IT Administrators or DevOps engineers with basic PowerShell experience can benefit by extending their learning to use PowerShell to manage containers on Windows environments and use additional management tools.
What You Will Learn
Build and deploy ASP.NET web applications as Windows Containers on Windows 10 (Desktop) and Azure using Visual Studio 2015, Docker, and PowerShell
Build and manage custom images using Windows Server Core base OS image and Docker CLI, publish images to Docker, tag images, author Docker files, and so on
Create enterprise-scale, production-grade container environments using Redis Cache containers and SQL Server containers with storage volumes, set up custom container networks, continuous integration, and deployment pipelines using VSTS, Azure, and Git
Deploy a composite container environment using Docker Compose on Windows
Learn to build applications using Microsoft’s thinnest server platform - Nano Servers. Build custom Nano Server images and Nano Containers using Windows PowerShell and configure using PowerShell Core, DSC
In Detail
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.
Style and approach
This hands-on tutorial helps you get started with Windows Server containers, the new trend in the container market. This example-driven guide is packed with real-world scenarios of Windows Server containers in production environments.
Table of contents
- Preface
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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
- 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
Product information
- Title: Learning Windows Server Containers
- Author(s):
- Release date: April 2017
- Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781785887932
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