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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

Packaging a traditional ASP.NET web app as a Docker image

Microsoft has made the Windows Server Core base image available on MCR, and that's a version of Windows Server 2019 which has much of the functionality of the full server edition, but without the UI. As base images go, it's very large: 2 GB compressed on Docker Hub, compared to 100 MB for Nano Server, and 2 MB for the tiny Alpine Linux image. But it means you can Dockerize pretty much any existing Windows app, and that's a great way to start migrating your systems to Docker.

Remember NerdDinner? It was an open source ASP.NET MVC showcase app, originally written by Scott Hanselman and Scott Guthrie among others at Microsoft. You can still get the code at CodePlex, but there hasn't been a change made since 2013, so it's an ideal candidate for proving that old .NET Framework apps can be migrated to...

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