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Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781785887932

Length 404 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

PowerShell

Tools

Windows Server

Concepts

Containerization

Author (1):

Srikanth Machiraju

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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Preface

1. Exploring Virtualization FREE CHAPTER

2. Deploying First Container

3. Working with Container Images

4. Developing Container Applications

5. Deploying Container Applications

6. Storage Volumes

7. Redis Cache Containers

8. Container Network

9. Continuous Integration and Delivery

10. Manage Resource Allocation and REST API

11. Composite Containers and Clustering

12. Nano Server

Developing Container Applications

One of the major benefits of containers is that they are inherently decoupled with the application development process. Containers are hosting environments, which means the application development can run seamlessly while the operations team can work, in parallel, on configuring the host for deploying them as containers or even a farm of containers. This chapter teaches you how to convert an existing ASP.NET Core and ASP.NET 4.5 website into a Windows Server Container compatible application. ASP.NET Core is the next version of the ASP.NET web application development platform, which has been renamed as Core because of the changes that have been made from the ground up. ASP.NET Core is inherently an extensible application development platform. We are going to use Visual Studio 2015 and its extensible endpoints, which are provided by the ASP.NET Core web application template to plug...

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Authors (1)

Machiraju

Srikanth Machiraju is an ardent techie, DevOps practitioner, and developer consultant on Microsoft Azure and .NET technologies. He works for Microsoft Global Services, Modern Apps team, Hyderabad India. Over the past 9 years he has worked as a lead consultant for design and development of cloud-based application, migrating legacy applications to cloud, corporate trainer on Azure technologies, and speaker at various user group meetings on Microsoft Technologies. He loves to teach and evangelize best practices and patterns in application development. He continues to explore building modern, smart, and cloud-born applications with more reachability and integration using Azure, IoT devices, Artificial Intelligence, deep learning, parallelism, and enterprise level security. When away from work he loves to cook for his family, explore and review new food joints, watch movies, swim, and play Xbox. He is also working on another artwork called Developing Bots using Microsoft Bot Framework which is due for release by end of 2017. The book focuses on building smart and intelligent bots using Microsoft Bot framework and Azure Cognitive Services.

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