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Learning Windows Server Containers

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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):

Machiraju

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Credits

Foreword

About the Author

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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

Benefits of running workloads on Nano Server

Let us look at some of the core challenges that Nano Server solves when compared to server core or the GUI version.

Live migrations

Managing a cluster of Windows Server Machines is a trivial task, when one is asked to migrate say 10-20 servers across geographical boundaries, then this is one hell of a task. Each Windows Server machine roughly takes around 4-5 GB of space with all the roles installed. Live Migrating 10-20 servers demands huge bandwidth, we are transferring almost 1 TB of data for just migrating 20 servers across the globe. Often to overcome this, server administrators deploy new set of servers in the new location and migrate the workloads instead, but this too involves cost overheads and downtimes to the application. Using Nano Server Live Migrations will be easy and fast because each server takes just about 400-500 MB of storage space.

Zero footprint

Nano Server comes with what is just needed, any server roles or optional features...

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Authors (1)

Machiraju

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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