Learning Windows Server Containers - Softcover

Srikanth Machiraju

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1785887939 ISBN 13: 9781785887932

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

About This Book

• Discover the secret to building highly portable apps that run on any machine with Windows Server 2016 anywhere, from laptops, desktop servers, and public or private clouds, without any changes to the code
• Build your company cost-effective, container-based apps that support large-scale, virtual cloud environments
• The most up-to-date help on the market, offering developers expert guidance in building and shipping high-quality apps, and also helping admins create infrastructure that's simple to maintain

Who This Book Is For

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

About this title

About the Author

Srikanth 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1785887939
• ISBN 13: 9781785887932
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 404