Technical requirements
This chapter requires Visual Studio 2022 free Community Edition or better, with all the database tools installed.
You will also need these:
- WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) and Docker Desktop for Windows. Detailed instructions on how to install both of them are given in the Technical requirements section of Chapter 11, Applying a Microservice Architecture to Your Enterprise Application.
- A Minikube installation that specifies Docker as a virtualization tool. Minikube installation is described in the Using Minikube section of Chapter 20, Kubernetes.
- A SQL Server database that allows TCP/IP connections. You can’t use SQL Server Express LocalDB, which comes with Visual Studio installation, since it doesn’t allow TCP/IP connections. So you need either a full SQL Express installation or an Azure SQL Server database. More details on how to fulfill this requirement will be given in the Tools needed for .NET Kubernetes development...