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Learning Windows Server Containers
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Learning Windows Server Containers

by Srikanth Machiraju
April 2017
Beginner
404 pages
9h 30m
English
Packt Publishing
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Preparing a Windows Containers image

A Windows Containers image can be developed primarily in two ways: using PowerShell commands or by using Docker CLI commands. Every Windows Server Container or Hyper-V Container should be created from a base OS image. Windows Server 2016 TP5 comes with two types of base OS images, windowsservercore and nanoserver. The Windows Server we created on Azure comes with windowsservercore installed by default. You can install the nanoserver image by running the following command:

    docker pull microsoft/nanoserver

In this chapter, we will use Docker commands to create a Windows Containers image from scratch, which will host default index pages on the IIS web server. First let's check for base OS images installed ...

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