From the course: Windows Server 2019: Deploying Containers

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Run IIS in a container

Run IIS in a container - Windows Server Tutorial

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Run IIS in a container

- [Instructor] One of the most useful things that you can do with Windows containers is to run a web server inside. Of course, Microsoft's web server is IIS, Internet Information Server, and it's really easy to run inside a container. Let me show you how this works. We're here on our Windows container host, and we're going to do a docker run, and this time, we're going to use the minus d flag to start this container up as a daemon, like a service, so it doesn't end once the command is started, or once this container is started. We'll also add another command here, which is minus p, for the port number, and this has to do with networking, this is the port mapping. And we'll talk more about networking later in the course, but what you need to know now is that we're mapping port 80 on the inside of the container to port 80 on the outside of the container so that we can access this container over the network. From here we're going to specify the Microsoft Container Registry dot…

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