Developing Container Applications

One of the major benefits of containers is that they are inherently decoupled with the application development process. Containers are hosting environments, which means the application development can run seamlessly while the operations team can work, in parallel, on configuring the host for deploying them as containers or even a farm of containers. This chapter teaches you how to convert an existing ASP.NET Core and ASP.NET 4.5 website into a Windows Server Container compatible application. ASP.NET Core is the next version of the ASP.NET web application development platform, which has been renamed as Core because of the changes that have been made from the ground up. ASP.NET Core is inherently an extensible application development platform. We are going to use Visual Studio 2015 and its extensible endpoints, which are provided by the ASP.NET Core web application template to plug...