Running ASP.NET Core in a container

In this section, we will create a simple ASP.NET Core application that accesses our Redis container. We will then run the application in a container. The majority of this we will do from the command line, but we will jump into Visual Studio to show some of the great tooling available:

1. The first step is to create a new directory and create a basic .NET web application. In the following Figure 9.18, we can see what ASP.NET projects are available by using the dotnet new ASP.NET -l command:

   Figure 9.18 – dotnet new ASP.NET -l

2. Next, we need to create a folder for our solution with the mkdir Chap9 command and create an empty solution with the dotnet new sln command as shown in Figure 9.19:

   Figure 9.19 – dotnet new sln

3. Then we create another folder within the previous one called web with the mkdir web command. Remember to change directory, for example, using cd web, into the created folder. Create a new ASP.NET Core Empty project...