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Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800562448

Length 246 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Linux

Concepts

Shell Scripting

Author (1):

Stuart Leeks

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Introduction, Installation, and Configuration

2. Chapter 1: Introduction to the Windows Subsystem for Linux FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Installing and Configuring the Windows Subsystem for Linux

4. Chapter 3: Getting Started with Windows Terminal

5. Section 2:Windows and Linux – A Winning Combination

6. Chapter 4: Windows to Linux Interoperability

7. Chapter 5: Linux to Windows Interoperability

8. Chapter 6: Getting More from Windows Terminal

9. Chapter 7: Working with Containers in WSL

10. Chapter 8: Working with WSL Distros

11. Section 3: Developing with the Windows Subsystem for Linux

12. Chapter 9: Visual Studio Code and WSL

13. Chapter 10: Visual Studio Code and Containers

14. Chapter 11: Productivity Tips with Command-Line Tools

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Building and running a web application in Docker

In this section, we will build a Docker container image that packages a Python web application. This container image will include the web application and all its dependencies so that it can be run on a machine that has the Docker daemon installed.

To follow along with this example, make sure that you have the code for the book (from https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Windows-Subsystem-for-Linux-2-WSL-2-Tips-Tricks-and-Techniques) cloned in a Linux distro and then open a terminal and navigate to the chapter-07/01-docker-web-app folder, which contains the sample application we will use here. Check the README.md file for instructions on installing the dependencies needed to run the application.

The sample application is built on the Flask web framework for Python (https://github.com/pallets/flask) and uses the Gunicorn HTTP server to host the application (https://gunicorn.org/).

To keep the focus of the chapter on Docker containers...