Learning Windows Server Containers

This book is for application developers with a basic programming knowledge of C#, ASP.NET, and PowerShell. IT Administrators or DevOps engineers with basic PowerShell experience can benefit by extending their learning to use PowerShell to manage containers on Windows environments and use additional management tools.

What You Will Learn:

- Build and deploy ASP.NET web applications as Windows Containers on Windows 10 (Desktop) and Azure using Visual Studio 2015, Docker, and PowerShell
- Build and manage custom images using Windows Server Core base OS image and Docker CLI, publish images to Docker, tag images, author Docker files, and so on
- Create enterprise-scale, production-grade container environments using Redis Cache containers and SQL Server containers with storage volumes, set up custom container networks, continuous integration, and deployment pipelines using VSTS, Azure, and Git
- Deploy a composite container environment using Docker Compose on Windows
- Learn to build applications using Microsoft’s thinnest server platform - Nano Servers. Build custom Nano Server images and Nano Containers using Windows PowerShell and configure using PowerShell Core, DSC

Learning Windows Server Containers teaches you to build simple to advanced production-grade, container-based application using ASP.NET Core, Visual Studio, Azure, Docker, and PowerShell technologies. This book teaches you to build and deploy simple web applications as Windows and Hyper-V Containers on Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 on Azure. You will learn to build on top of Windows Container base OS images, integrate with existing images from Docker Hub, create custom images, and publish to the Hub. You will also learn to work with storage containers built using volumes and SQL Server as container, create and configure custom networks, integrate with Redis Cache containers, and configure continuous integration and deployment pipelines using VSTS and Git repository.

Further, you can also learn to manage resources for a container, set up monitoring and diagnostics, deploy composite container environments using Docker Compose on Windows and manage container clusters using Docker Swarm.

By the end of the end of the book, we focus on building applications using Microsoft’s new and thinnest server platform – Nano Servers.