How To Get Started With Docker On Windows

Originally published on Scalable Path by Rafael on May 1, 2018.

Applications are being built, shipped and updated at an increasingly fast pace. This trend has generated interest in solutions that will help facilitatethis complex process. The result is a flood of new methodologies and tools into the DevOps space. In this article, I will focus on one of these tools: Docker. More specifically, Docker on Windows, along with a sample application in ASP.NET.

WHAT IS DEVOPS?

The AWS site describes DevOps as “the combination of cultural philosophies, practices, and tools that increases an organization’s ability to deliver applications and services at high velocity.”

In other words, DevOps is about merging the Development and Operations silos into one team, so engineers work across the entire application lifecycle.

WHAT IS DOCKER?

Docker performs operating system level virtualization, a process often referred to as containerization (hence the term “Docker containers”). It was initially developed for Linux, but it is now fully supported on macOS and Windows, as well as all major cloud service providers (including AWS, Azure and Google Cloud). Containers help you package an application, and all of the software required to run it, into a…