Docker for .NET Apps - on Linux and Windows

Name: Docker for .NET Apps - on Linux and Windows
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Learn how to build, run and design .NET apps using Docker - with Windows for .NET Framework apps and Linux for .NET Core

Created byElton Stoneman

Last updated 1/2021

English

What you'll learn

Core Docker concepts: containers, images and registries
Building and running .NET Framework apps in Windows containers
Building and running .NET Core apps in Linux and Windows containers
Defining and running multi-container apps with Docker Compose
Breaking up monolithic apps into a distributed architecture
How to prepare Dockerized .NET apps for production
How to run containers at scale using Docker Swarm

Course content

5 sections • 38 lectures • 8h 32m total length

Understanding Docker on Windows and Linux13:05
Installing Docker and Setting Up Your Environment1:18
Windows Container Basics19:50
Learn to work with Windows containers using the Docker CLI, run both interactive and background containers, inspect logs, and execute commands inside SQL Server or Windows image containers.
Linux Container Basics14:19
Discover how to run Linux containers on Docker alongside Windows containers. Learn Linux container basics, image differences, and common commands using Alpine and Ubuntu, plus running SQL Server on Linux.
Dockerfiles and Docker Images25:36
Learn to build and run .NET apps in containers by creating Dockerfiles, packaging images, publishing ports, and ensuring logs across Windows and Linux.
Docker Images, Tags and Registries16:02
Learn how to tag and push Docker images to registries like Docker Hub, manage versions with tags, and share Windows and Linux container images across repositories.
.NET Base Images17:49
Explore .NET base images on Linux and Windows, including runtime, SDK, and ASP.NET variants. Learn tag semantics and how to choose the smallest base image for your apps.
Section Recap4:12
Quiz: Docker on Windows and Linux

Building and Running .NET Apps in Containers4:19
Packaging Pre-built Applications14:02
Compiling and Packaging .NET Framework Apps17:35
Running Multi-container Applications10:38
Compiling and Packaging .NET Core Apps9:09
Compile and package .NET Core apps with multi-stage Dockerfiles using the SDK and runtime images, building a lightweight reference data API with Dapper, DI, and environment-based config.
Integrating .NET Apps with the Docker Platform17:50
Discover how docker standardizes dotnet apps by configuring dotnet core with appsettings.json and optional json sources plus environment variables, and compare net framework xml configuration and logging.
Section Recap7:37
Quiz: .NET Apps in Containers

Designing a Distributed Architecture6:05
Design a distributed architecture using Docker Compose to split a monolithic app into independent containers, implement a reverse proxy entry point, and adopt asynchronous, event-driven messaging.
Modelling Apps with Docker Compose12:04
Explore how Docker Compose models multi-container applications with a YAML specification and a separate CLI to build, run, and manage services, networks, and volumes.
Modernizing .NET Framework Apps10:48
Modernize a .NET framework monolith by containerizing components, switching to an API reference data loader, and hosting a separate home page with dependency injection and configuration.
Managing HTTP Traffic with a Reverse Proxy11:07
Using a Message Queue for Async Communication10:47
Switch to asynchronous messaging with a message queue to decouple the web app from SQL Server, enabling scalable, event-driven processing via a message handler and Nat in Docker.
Adding Features with Message Handlers13:48
Leverage an event-driven architecture with a new message handler to power a self-service analytics portal using Elasticsearch and Kibana, all deployed in Docker across Linux and Windows.
Running Cross Platform Distributed Apps14:15
Section Recap5:46
Explore how Docker and Docker Compose model distributed applications, decompose monoliths into containerized services, and use a reverse proxy with Nats or RabbitMQ to decouple components.
Quiz: Distributed Architecture

Preparing for Production6:22
Logging Revisited16:30
Explore robust logging for Windows containers using log monitor and service monitor to relay event logs, bubble up SQL Server and ASP.NET web failures to the container.
Health and Readiness Checks22:25
Monitoring .NET Runtime Metrics13:22
Monitoring Application Metrics19:17
Persisting Data for Stateful Apps15:28
Persisting Data in SQL Server Containers12:59
Section Recap11:30
Quiz: Production Readiness

Running at Scale with a Container Platform5:45
Creating a Docker Swarm Cluster14:04
Learn to create a multi-node Docker swarm cluster across Linux and Windows, initialize the swarm, join workers, deploy scalable services, and leverage ingress load balancing.
Deploying Application Stacks20:46
High-availability and Scale18:18
Centralizing Log Collection18:22
Monitoring Dashboards24:24
Section Recap15:08
Quiz: Running at Scale

Requirements

Familiarity with .NET apps - from a dev, ops or architecture background
Access to a Windows 10 machine to follow along with the exercises

Description

Docker is a platform for running applications in lightweight units of compute called containers. You can take pretty much any app and run it in a container, and this course will teach you how to do that - with 100% focus on .NET applications and real-world skills.

You'll learn how to run .NET Framework applications in Windows containers, and .NET Core applications in Windows and Linux containers. Then you'll see how to run new and old components in a distributed architecture with Docker Compose. Finally you'll learn what you need to do to get your Dockerized .NET apps ready for production, and how it looks to run apps at scale in Docker Swarm.

The learning journey in this course is honed from many years of teaching - you don't need to have any existing Docker knowledge, you'll start with the basics and add more knowledge with every lesson. And the content is honed from many years of consulting projects, helping organizations to move .NET apps to Docker and run them successfully in production. That can be the first step to modernizing monolithic applications, or for migrating on-premises applications to the cloud.

Your instructor, Elton Stoneman, is a Docker Captain and a Microsoft MVP - and he's been running containers in production since 2015.

Who this course is for:

.NET developers who want to build and run apps with Docker
.NET admins who want to deploy and manage apps with Docker
Docker users who want to run Windows workloads in containers
.NET architects who want to remodel monolithic applications
.NET users who want to migrate apps to the cloud

Docker for .NET Apps - on Linux and Windows

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Understanding Docker on Windows and Linux8 lectures • 1hr 52min

Building and Running .NET Apps in Containers7 lectures • 1hr 21min

Designing a Distributed Architecture8 lectures • 1hr 25min

Preparing for Production8 lectures • 1hr 58min

Running at Scale in a Container Platform7 lectures • 1hr 57min

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