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You're reading from Learning Windows Server Containers Build and deploy high-quality portable apps faster

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

Summary

In this chapter, we have learnt how to create and configure Windows Server Container and Hyper-V environment on Windows 10 or Windows Server 2016. Windows 10 professional or Enterprise with Anniversary update can be used to run Hyper-V Containers only.

Windows Server 2016 TP5 ISO can be downloaded and configured as VM using VirtualBox or Hyper-V Manager to run Windows Server Containers. We can also use a readily available template on Azure.

Windows Server 2016 has two installation options, Windows Server Core no GUI version and full GUI versions. Both the versions support windows and Hyper-V Containers. To host Hyper-V Containers, the hosting OS should support nested virtualization.

Every Windows Server Container is based off of a base OS image called windowsservercore.

Hyper-V Containers use a much smaller version of a base OS image called nanoserver.

Windows PowerShell or Docker commands can be used for...

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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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