Practicing and exploring

Test your knowledge and understanding by answering some questions, getting some hands-on practice, and exploring the topics covered in this chapter with deeper research.

Exercise 15.1 – Online-only material

You can read an e-book about containerization with .NET at the following link: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/architecture/microservices.

Exercise 15.2 – Practice exercises

Explore the Docker Desktop user interface at the following link: https://docs.docker.com/desktop/use-desktop/.

Exercise 15.3 – Test your knowledge

Answer the following questions. If you get stuck, try googling the answers, if necessary, while remembering that if you get totally stuck, the answers are in the Appendix:

1. What makes containers lightweight compared to VMs?
2. How are Docker and Kubernetes related?
3. What is the relationship between a Docker registry, a Docker image, and a Docker container?
4. What...