Chapter 12. Nano Server

You should know by now that the industry is up for a major shift on how we provision environments, it is time to divide and rule, split your application into multiple sustainable containers and scale at large using cutting edge cloud hosting providers. Well, we might have solved large part of the virtualization problems; there is still an unsolved problem. Containers live on a host and Windows Server 2016 is a bulky OS. There might be few features of the server which you might not even care, but you might have to regularly patch them and maintain the server, or worse the host restarts kill the application(s). So, why can't we just have what we need for the application to run? Bare minimum features which reduces the surface area, less maintenance and less fuss. You will be amazed to know that Microsoft is also thinking on the same lines. Microsoft's new Nano Server, the topic of this chapter is a much scaled down version of the Windows Server to server the ever-increasing...