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Docker on Windows

You're reading from   Docker on Windows From 101 to production with Docker on Windows

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789617375
Length 428 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Preface 1. Section 1: Understanding Docker and Windows Containers
2. Getting Started with Docker on Windows FREE CHAPTER 3. Packaging and Running Applications as Docker Containers 4. Developing Dockerized .NET Framework and .NET Core Applications 5. Sharing Images with Docker Registries 6. Section 2: Designing and Building Containerized Solutions
7. Adopting Container-First Solution Design 8. Organizing Distributed Solutions with Docker Compose 9. Orchestrating Distributed Solutions with Docker Swarm 10. Section 3: Preparing for Docker in Production
11. Administering and Monitoring Dockerized Solutions 12. Understanding the Security Risks and Benefits of Docker 13. Powering a Continuous Deployment Pipeline with Docker 14. Section 4: Getting Started on Your Container Journey
15. Debugging and Instrumenting Application Containers 16. Containerize What You Know - Guidance for Implementing Docker 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Instrumentation in Dockerized applications

Debugging your app is what you do when the logic doesn't work as expected and you're trying to track down what's going wrong. You don't debug in production, so you need your app to record its behavior to help you trace any problems that occur.

Instrumentation is often neglected, but it should be a crucial component of your development. It's the best way to understand the health and activity of your app in production. Running your app in Docker provides new opportunities for centralized logging and instrumentation so that you can get a consistent view across the different parts of your application, even if they use different languages and platforms.

Adding instrumentation to your containers can be a straightforward process. Windows Server Core containers are already collecting lots of metrics in Windows performance...

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