You're reading from A Developer's Guide to .NET in Azure Build quick, scalable cloud-native applications and microservices with .NET 6.0 and Azure

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781837633012

Length 504 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

.NET

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (2):

Tamir Al Balkhi

Anuraj Parameswaran

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: An Introduction to Your Environment

2. Chapter 1: Setting Up Your Development Environment FREE CHAPTER

3. Part 2: Serverless and Microservices

4. Chapter 2: Creating Docker Containers on Azure

5. Chapter 3: Building Resilient Applications with Dapr

6. Chapter 4: Designing Microservices with AKS and Containers in Azure

7. Chapter 5: Building Serverless Apps with Azure Functions and Container Apps

8. Part 3: Data and Storage

9. Chapter 6: Exploring Azure Blob Storage

10. Chapter 7: Creating an Azure SQL Database

11. Chapter 8: Creating Documents via .NET for Azure Cosmos DB

12. Part 4: Messaging Mechanisms and Security

13. Chapter 9: Utilizing Azure App Configuration

14. Chapter 10: Processing Data with Azure Event Hubs

15. Chapter 11: Designing Ready-Made Solutions with Azure Service Bus

16. Chapter 12: Enhancing Data Protection with Azure Key Vault

17. Chapter 13: Managing Access with Azure Active Directory B2C

18. Index

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Installing Docker

In this section, you will install Docker Desktop on your Windows machine. Docker is a software company that offers a containerization platform. There are other container software providers as well, but Docker is the most popular one.

In Windows, you can install Docker with the WSL (short for Windows Subsystem for Linux) backend or the Hyper V backend. The WSL backend is preferred, as WSL 2 provides better performance than the Hyper-V backend. You need a Windows 10 or Windows 11 computer with a 64-bit processor, 4 GB RAM, and hardware virtualization support must be enabled. You can find more details at https://docs.docker.com/desktop/install/windows-install/. You can also find the installation setup in this URL.

Once you download the Docker Desktop Installer (Docker Desktop Installer.exe) and execute it, the setup will check your system for the prerequisites and then show a prompt like this:

Figure 2.1: Docker Desktop installation screen...