1. Nano Server in the cloud - some real use cases to take away
David O’Brien
Senior DevOps Consultant
Versent

2. DAVID O’BRIEN MVP for Microsoft Azure
Senior DevOps Versent
Cloud // Automation
Founder of Melbourne PowerShell meetup
German – Scottish
From Melbourne / Australia
@david_obrien

3. Agenda Newsroom Nano Server – build it Containers?
Cloud container solutions for Nano Server
Best tool for the job?

4. Newsroom This used to be an infrastructure session
Until Microsoft announced “no more!” and made Nano Server solely a Container OS
elivering-continuous-innovation-with-windows-server/
Server Core for infrastructure

5. Nano server reloaded
Nano Server has been optimized for .NET Core applications.
Nano Server is even smaller than the Windows Server version. Windows PowerShell, .NET Core, and WMI are no longer included by default, but you can include PowerShell and .NET Core container packages when building your container.
There is no longer a servicing stack included in Nano Server.
Microsoft publishes an updated Nano container to Docker Hub that you redeploy.
You can now run Nano containers on IoT Core.

6. How to build Nano Server
Start on your machine!
Docker build .
Then push code to CI server
Jenkins
VSTS
Store the artifact!
ACR / ECR
Docker hub
Artifactory

7. Manage containers Azure ACS (Platform!) AWS ECS (Orchestrator!)
Azure Container Instances
AWS ECS (Orchestrator!)
Kubernetes / k8s (Orchestrator!)
Docker Swarm

9. Demo time

10. Nano server – summary Can only run dotnet core
Most apps need at least rebuild or full redevelopment
C# and Visual Studio known to .Net developers
Compared to Linux still “a bit fat”
Currently ~450MB (+app + dependencies)
Compared to much smaller Linux
A lot of tooling for Nano Server not yet very mature
“Linux first”