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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

Summary

Nano Server is the new headless deployment option which comes with Windows Server 2016. Nano Server is a deeply refactored version designed to provide lightest, fastest ever configuration with lesser patches, reboots, better resource utilization and tighter security. Nano Server does not have any GUI component, the only way to manage Nano Server is by using Windows Remote Management. Nano Server has 93% lesser VHD Size, 92% fewer critical security advisories and 80% fewer reboots than the Windows Server. Nano Server can be provisioned on Azure or on-premise environment by using the Nano Server installation ISO, VHD options. Roles and features live outside Nano Server, so they should be downloaded from Internet or copied to the Nano Server. Microsoft has also release a custom image builder for Nano Server. Nano server comes with online package repository which allows us to connect to any online repository...

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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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