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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 FREE CHAPTER
2. Getting Started with Docker on Windows 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

Getting Started with Docker on Windows

Docker is an application platform. It's a new way of running applications in isolated, lightweight units called containers. Containers are a very efficient way of running apps – much more efficient than virtual machines (VMs) or bare-metal servers. Containers start in seconds, and they don't add any overhead to the memory and compute requirements of an app. Docker is completely agnostic to the type of apps it can run. You can run a brand new .NET Core app in one container and a 10-year old ASP.NET 2.0 WebForms app in another container on the same server.

Containers are isolated units, but they can integrate with other components. Your WebForms container can access a REST API hosted in your .NET Core container. Your .NET Core container can access a SQL Server database running in a container, or a SQL Server instance running...

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