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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 Jul 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785281655
Length 358 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Elton Stoneman Elton Stoneman
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Docker on Windows 2. Packaging and Running Applications as Docker Containers FREE CHAPTER 3. Developing Dockerized .NET and .NET Core Applications 4. Pushing and Pulling Images from Docker Registries 5. Adopting Container-First Solution Design 6. Organizing Distributed Solutions with Docker Compose 7. Orchestrating Distributed Solutions with Docker Swarm 8. Administering and Monitoring Dockerized Solutions 9. Understanding the Security Risks and Benefits of Docker 10. Powering a Continuous Deployment Pipeline with Docker 11. Debugging and Instrumenting Application Containers 12. Containerize What You Know - Guidance for Implementing Docker

Running a message queue in Docker


The web application now publishes messages, and a handler listens for them, so the final component I need is a message queue to connect the two. Queues need the same level of availability as the rest of the solution, so they're good candidates for running in Docker containers. In a distributed solution deployed on many servers, the queue can be clustered across multiple containers for performance and redundancy.

Your choice of messaging technology depends on the features you need, but there are plenty of options with .NET client librariesMicrosoft Message Queue (MSMQ) is the native Windows queue, RabbitMQ is a popular open source queue that supports durable messaging, and nats is an open source in-memory queue that is hugely performant.

The high throughput and low latency of nats messaging make it a good choice to communicate between containers, and there is an official image for nats on Docker Hub. nats is a Go application that runs cross-platform and there...

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