Docker for .NET Developers with Visual Studio

Discover how to use Docker—a popular software containerization platform—to streamline your .NET development workflow.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know
• Using the exercise files

1. How We Got to Containers

• Why containers?
• Virtual machines vs. containers
• Where does Docker fit in?

2. Docker Basics

• Images and containers
• List and pull images
• Work with containers

3. The Dockerfile

• The starter project
• Create the Dockerfile
• Build an image from the Dockerfile
• Run a container from the new image
• Clean up

4. Docker Compose

• Docker Compose format
• The API service
• The postgres service
• Running the stack

Conclusion

• Push images to Docker Hub
• Next steps