This document discusses containerized application delivery on the Microsoft stack. It provides an introduction to containers and their advantages over traditional virtual machines. It then discusses the differences between Linux containers and the two types of Windows containers - Windows Server containers and Hyper-V containers. The document demonstrates how to set up and use containers on Windows and the container support in Visual Studio 2017 and Visual Studio Code. It also discusses Azure Container Service and provides some tips for containerized workflows.

1. CONTAINERIZED
DELIVERY
on the Microsoft stack
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2. Introduction
Why, history, what…

3. The cloud has changed expectations
Availability
100% Uptime
Hyper-scale
From startup to
enterprise
Agility
Deliver just in
time speed

4. Digital Disruption is real !

5. Containers: the next step in application delivery
Serverless
Manual
Installation wizard
Scripted
Desired state
Containerized

6. Linux containers
• August 2008 - Linux Containers
• March 2013 - Docker founded by Solomon Hykes
• Next level of application delivery (functional)
• Next level of virtualization (technical)

7. Containers are NOT VM’S!

8. Hardware virtualization

9. OS virtualization
User space
Kernel space

10. REST Interface
libcontainerd graphlibnetwork plugins
Docker Client
Docker
Registry
Docker Compose Docker Swarm
containerd + runc
Control Groups
cgroups
Namespaces
Pid, net, ipc, mnt, uts
Layer Capabilities
Union Filesystems
AUFS, btrfs, vfs, zfs*,
DeviceMapper
Other OS
Functionality
OS virtualization on Linux

11. Windows container types

12. A terminology thing…

13. Windows container hosts
• Supported Windows Container Hosts
• Windows Server 2016 Server Core
• Windows Server 2016 Nano Server
• Windows 10

14. Containers on Windows
• August 2008 - Linux Containers
• March 2013 - Docker founded by Solomon Hykes
• ~2014 - Microsoft started implementing Windows Containers
• August 2015 - Windows Server 2016 TP 3 (Windows Server Container
Support)
• November 2015 - Windows Server 2016 TP 4 (Hyper-V Container
Support)
• September 2016 - General availability of Windows Server 2016

15. Windows Server Containers

16. Demo #1
First look at Windows Server Container

17. How Windows Server Containers are different
Host User Mode
Container
Management
Compute
Services
System
Processes
Application
Processes
System Processes
System
Processes
Application
Processes

18. REST Interface
libcontainerd graphlibnetwork plugins
Control Groups
Job objects
Namespaces
Object Namespace,
Process Table,
Networking
Layer Capabilities
Registry, Union like
filesystem extensions
Other OS
Functionality
Compute Service
Docker Client
Docker
Registry
Docker Compose Docker Swarm
containerd + runc
Control Groups
cgroups
Namespaces
Pid, net, ipc, mnt, uts
Layer Capabilities
Union Filesystems
AUFS, btrfs, vfs, zfs*,
DeviceMapper
Other OS
Functionality
Container Architecture (Windows vs Linux)

19. Hyper-V containers

20. Demo #2
First look at Hyper-V Containers

21. The new Microsoft

22. Containers on Windows

23. Getting started

24. Install Docker and Docker Compose
• https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-windows/install/
• https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.9.0/docker-
compose-Windows-x86_64.exe
• Supported Windows Container Hosts
• Windows Server 2016 Server Core
• Windows Server 2016 Nano Server
• Windows 10

25. Microsoft Container Integrations

26. Container support in Visual Studio 2017
• Run, debug and test apps in Docker Containers
• Breakpoint debugging
• Edit & refresh of code
• Scaffolds Docker assets
• Dockerfile, docker-compose.yml

27. Demo #3
Container support in VS2017

28. Debugging containers – How it works
Sources
Debugger
~
%USER_PROFILE%

29. Environment variables ASP.NET Core
public Startup(IHostingEnvironment env)
{
var builder = new ConfigurationBuilder()
.SetBasePath(env.ContentRootPath)
.AddJsonFile("appsettings.json", optional:
.AddJsonFile($"appsettings.{env.Environment
.AddEnvironmentVariables();
Configuration = builder.Build();
}

30. Container support in Visual Studio Code
Yeoman generator for Docker
DockerToolsForVSCode extension

31. Demo #4
Container support in Visual Studio Code

32. Containerized workflow

33. Azure Container Service

34. Demo #5
Settingup an end-to-end containerized
pipeline with Azure and VSTS

35. Lessons learned

36. Keep windows
images up-to-date
(http://bit.ly/2kdVIHr)
Tips &
Tricks
Data volume containers
(docker create -v C:/DockerData:C:/data --name
DataContainer microsoft/windowsservercore
docker run -it -d --volumes-from DataContainer --name
Consumer1 microsoft/windowsservercore)
Be aware of
sensitive
information!
Install-ModuleImage2Docker
Import-Module Image2Docker ConvertTo-Dockerfile
-ImagePathC:win-2016-iis.vhd-ArtifactIIS -
OutputPathc:i2d2iis
Portainer
(http://portainer.io/overview.html#demo )
DockerTLS
(docker run --rm -e
IP_ADDRESSES=127.0.0.1,192.168.254.123 -v
"C:ProgramDatadocker:C:ProgramDatadocker" -v
"$env:USERPROFILE.docker:C:UsersContainerAdmi
nistrator.docker" stefanscherer/dockertls-windows)
Group Managed
Service Accounts
(https://github.com/Microsoft/Virtualizat
ion-Documentation/tree/live/windows-
server-container-tools/ServiceAccountss)

37. Think ahead. Ask now.
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