Creating a Docker image

The Docker platform is an open source platform that helps us package applications (code, configuration, dependencies) as a standalone lightweight executable image that can then be deployed and executed in an Azure Kubernetes cluster.

Note

You can learn more about Docker and containers here:

https://docs.docker.com/get-started

https://docs.docker.com/desktop/windows

https://docs.docker.com/desktop/windows/install

Through the following steps, we will see how to package our application as a Docker container image:

1. Add Docker support by right-clicking the Distel.WebHost project in Solution Explorer and selecting Add > Docker Support… as shown in the following figure:

Figure 10.3 – Adding Docker support

2. Once you select Docker Support…, you will get an option to select the target OS as shown in the following figure. For this demo, I have selected Linux:
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