From the course: Windows Server 2019: Deploying Containers

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,600 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

Considerations for running containers in production

Considerations for running containers in production - Windows Server Tutorial

From the course: Windows Server 2019: Deploying Containers

Start my 1-month free trial

Considerations for running containers in production

“

- [Instructor] Thanks to the agreement between Docker and Microsoft, Windows Server runs the Docker Enterprise Edition of the Docker Engine, which is very cool. With that, you can create a cluster, you can run an orchestrator like Swarm or Kubernetes, and you could have multiple hosts all working together to orchestrate your containers, as well as a number of other advanced features. However, you still lack centralized graphical management of both Windows and Linux nodes across these clusters, secure image management and image scanning, a central registry, and most importantly, commercial support. And that's why I wanted to bring up the Docker Enterprise Platform, as it's known. If you want to run Docker containers in production across multiple Windows hosts to provide application services for production apps, then you should seriously consider the Docker Enterprise Platform. So the Docker Enterprise Platform contains the Docker Engine, which we've been using, also known as the…

Contents