June 2016
Intermediate to advanced
600 pages
8h 6m
English
book
Microservices with Docker on Microsoft Azure™ (includes Content Update Program)
by Boris Scholl, Trent Swanson, Daniel Fernandez
Overview
“Beyond just describing the basics, this book dives
into best practices every aspiring microservices developer or
architect should know.”
—Foreword by Corey Sanders, Partner Director of Program
Management, Azure
Microservice-based applications enable unprecedented agility and
ease of management, and Docker containers are ideal for building
them. Microsoft Azure offers all the foundational technology and
higher-level services you need to develop and run any microservices
application. Microservices with Docker on Microsoft Azure
brings together essential knowledge for creating these applications
from the ground up, or incrementally deconstructing monolithic
applications over time.
The authors draw on their pioneering experience helping to develop
Azure’s microservices features and collaborating with
Microsoft product teams who’ve relied on microservices
architectures for years. They illuminate the benefits and
challenges of microservices development and share best practices
all developers and architects should know.
You’ll gain hands-on expertise through a detailed sample
application, downloadable at github.com/flakio/flakio.github.io.
Step by step, you’ll walk through working with services
written in Node.js, Go, and ASP.NET 5, using diverse data stores
(mysql, elasticsearch, block storage). The authors guide you
through using Docker Hub as a service registry, and Microsoft Azure
Container service for cluster management and service
orchestration.
Coverage includes:
Recognizing how microservices architectures are different, and when they make sense
Understanding Docker containers in the context of microservices architectures
Building, pulling, and layering Docker images
Working with Docker volumes, containers, images, tags, and logs
Using Docker Swarm, Docker Compose, and Docker Networks
Creating Docker hosts using the Azure portal, Azure Resource Manager, the command line, docker-machine, or locally via Docker toolbox
Establishing development and DevOps environments to support microservices applications
Making the most of Docker’s continuous delivery options
Using Azure’s cluster and container orchestration capabilities to operate and scale containerized microservices applications with maximum resilience
Monitoring microservices applications with Azure Diagnostics, Visual Studio Application Insights, and Microsoft Operations Management Suite
Developing microservices applications faster and more effectively with Azure Service Fabric
An extensive sample application demonstrating the microservices concepts discussed throughout the book is available.
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