This is the code repository for Learning Windows Server Containers, published by Packt. It contains all the supporting project files necessary to work through the book from start to finish.

Windows Server Containers are independent, isolated, manageable and portable application environments which are light weight and shippable. Decomposing your application into smaller manageable components or MicroServices helps in building scalable and distributed application environments. Windows Server Containers have a significant impact on application developers, development operations (DevOps) and infrastructure management teams. Applications can be built, shipped and deployed in a fast-paced manner on an easily manageable and updatable environment.

Learning Windows Server Containers teaches you to build simple to advanced production grade container based application using Asp.Net Core, Visual Studio, Azure, Docker and PowerShell technologies. The book teaches you to build and deploy simple web applications as Windows and Hyper-V containers on Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 on Azure. You will learn to build on top of Windows Container Base OS Images, integrate with existing images from Docker Hub, create custom images and publish to Hub. You will also learn to work with storage containers built using Volumes and SQL Server as container, create and configure custom networks, integrate with Redis Cache containers, configure continuous integration and deployment pipelines using VSTS and Git Repository. Further you can also learn to manage resources for a container, setting up monitoring and diagnostics, deploy composite container environments using Docker Compose on Windows and manage container clusters using Docker Swarm. The last chapter of the book focuses on building applications using Microsoft’s new and thinnest server platform – Nano Servers.

All of the code is organized into folders. Each folder starts with a number followed by the application name. For example, Chapter2

The code will look like the following:

   $sectionaspNetCore = $appHostConfig.RootSectionGroup.SectionGroups["system.webServer"].Sections.Add("aspNetCore")
   $sectionaspNetCore.OverrideModeDefault = "Allow"
   $sm.CommitChanges()

There are no code files for the following chapters:

• Chapter01 - Exploring Virtualization
• Chapter10 - Manage Resource Allocation and REST API

• Windows 10 Anniversary Update
• Windows Server 2016 (RTM/Evaluation Version)
• Visual Studio 2015 Community or above - Update 3
• .NET Core VS 2015 Tooling Preview
• Azure PowerShell Ver 3.0.0

• Mastering Windows Server 2016

• Mastering Windows PowerShell Scripting

• C# 6 and .NET Core 1.0: Modern Cross-Platform Development

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