Commerce Server 10.1 Setup on Windows Server 2012

In this blog post i am documenting the steps required to install and configure Commerce Server 10.1 on Windows Server 2012 machine.

List of downloads i did from http://commerceserver.net/

Launch CommerceServer-10.1.67.0 setup file (note: version may vary in future).

Splash screen of Commerce Server 10.1 installation

Accept the Licence Agreement page

Installation in progress

Installation in progress

Commerce Server Configuration Wizard. Click Next

MSCS_Admin DB configuration

Add a new user "CS_RunTime"

Configure Staging Service to run with CS_RunTime user

Commerce Server Configuration summary

Commerce Server Configuration - In Progress

Commerce Server Configuration - Completed

Commerce Server Setup - Completed

Post installation of Commerce Server 10.1 on Windows Server 2012 we can now see in the Metro UI following apps are added

Docker Overview

In this post, I will document the learning I had with Docker.

Container History

- Linux Containers

• Open VZ 
• Single patched linux kernal ability to use architecture kernel version of system for executing the container
• Linux V-Server
• Virtual Private Server implementation. Created for adding OS level virtualization to the linux kernel itself.

What's a Container?

• OS level Virtualization.
• Kernel of OS allowing multiple isolated user space instances instead of one. 
• Like real server from point of view of operator.

What is Docker?
Docker is an open-source project to easily create lightweight, portable, self-sufficient containers from any application. The same container that a developer builds and tests on a laptop can run at scale, in production, on VMs, bare metal, OpenStack clusters, public clouds and more.

Technology behind Docker 

• Developed using Google's Go language
• with Linux kernel using cgroup & cnames (namespace)
• AUFS union filesystem
• LxC (Linux containers)

TB typed more...as i learn...