You're reading from ASP.NET Core 5 for Beginners Kick-start your ASP.NET web development journey with the help of step-by-step tutorials and examples

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800567184

Length 602 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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.NET Core

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Authors (5):

Jeffrey Chilberto

Ed Price

Andreas Helland

Vincent Maverick Durano

Ed Price

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1 – Crawling

2. Chapter 1: Introduction to ASP.NET Core 5 FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Cross-Platform Setup

4. Chapter 3: Dependency Injection

5. Chapter 4: Razor View Engine

6. Chapter 5: Getting Started with Blazor

7. Section 2 – Walking

8. Chapter 6: Exploring the Blazor Web Framework

9. Chapter 7: APIs and Data Access

10. Chapter 8: Working with Identity in ASP.NET

11. Chapter 9: Getting Started with Containers

12. Section 3 – Running

13. Chapter 10: Deploying to AWS and Azure

14. Chapter 11: Browser and Visual Studio Debugging

15. Chapter 12: Integrating with CI/CD

16. Chapter 13: Developing Cloud-Native Apps

17. Assessments

18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Summary

In this chapter, we have covered containers and the popular Docker platform. We provided an overview of containerization and what makes containers different from VMs. We looked at Docker and some of its major components, including images, containers, Docker Engine, and Dockerfiles.

We provided three different examples of running containers. The first was running the popular in-memory cache Redis. This showed how simple it is to start up a new container. Next, we created our own ASP.NET Core container by using just Notepad. The last example used Visual Studio to containerize an existing ASP.NET Core application. This example highlighted some of the nice features that the IDE provides when working with Docker.

Containers and Docker is a big subject. The goal of this chapter is to present some of the highlights and background of this powerful technology. Because of the portability of .NET to both Linux and Windows, it is an ideal framework for building containers.

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