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Using Declarative Jenkins Pipelines
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Site Reliability Engineering (SRE): The Big Picture
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Monitoring Containerized Application Health with Docker
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Handling Data and Stateful Applications in Docker
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Managing Load Balancing and Scale in Docker Swarm Mode Clusters
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Modernizing .NET Apps with Docker
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C# Extension Methods
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358 pages, 52 Dockerfiles and the word "Linux" is only used twice. This is Docker on Windows, a book all about running Windows applications in containers, powered by Docker.
It seems silly to start all these retros saying "it was a busy month" every time, so I'm just going to get started.
The new release of Docker CE
Secrets are a first-class citizen in Docker. They're for storing sensitive application data, like API keys and connection strings. Secrets have been in Docker on Linux for a while, and with Docker
Plenty happening in the Docker and Microsoft space. Last month I got to some great conferences and spent a bunch of time with some awesome folks.
Docker CE 17.05 was released
You can run any application in Docker as long as it can be installed and executed unattended, and the base operating system supports the app. Windows Server Core runs in Docker which
You can only run Docker containers natively on Windows Server 2016. Windows 10 lets you run containers with elevated isolation in Hyper-V mode, but there are some restrictions around that - and
DockerĀ is a very generous platform. It works hard to make applications think they are running on a normal server, and it doesn't make any demands on how the app should work.
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Three tips to improve your Docker on Windows life immeasurably.
Windows can only run Windows containers. Currently there are only two base images, so pull these to
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instructionUpdated! From Docker 1.13 all Dockerfile instructions respect the escape character, see Windows: Honour escape directive fully
In the Dockerfile spec the backslash is used as