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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):

Srikanth Machiraju

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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

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

Developing ASP.NET 4.5 applications as Windows Server Containers

In the earlier section, we learned how to run an ASP.NET Core application on Kestrel, packaged and deployed as a Windows Server Container image. In this section, we will be converting an existing ASP.NET 4.5 application as a Windows Server Container package which runs on IIS within the windows server core:

Let us start with creating a basic ASP.NET 4.5 MVC application on Visual Studio 2015. Click on File | New | Project or Ctrl + Shift + N from keyboard to create a new project.

Select ASP.NET Web Application (.NET Framework) template. Ensure .NET Framework 4.5.2 is selected on the framework section on top. Click OK.
Select c:\samples\aspnet4.5\ as the location for storing the project artifacts. Let us also name the project as WindowsContainerSample:

Select MVC template from ASP.NET 4.5.2 Templates. Click on Change Authentication and select No Authentication. Click OK on the Change Authentication window and then click OK on the...

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Authors (1)

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.

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