Deploy .NET Core Application In Azure Kubernetes With Azure DevOps

Introduction

In this article, we will discuss how to deploy a .NET Core web apps in Azure Kubernetes with Azure devops. Deploying a .NET core application in Azure Kubernetes is very easy. In order to get better understanding of basic topics like Docker, Containers, Microservice and so on, I plan to provide a complete wrap of containerization and the use of it by deploying a new .NET Core web apps in Azure kubernetes with Azure DevOps.

I hope this article will be helpful to many new beginners who are new to .NET Core containerization, Docker, Azure Kubernetes and Azure devops. Let's learn and explore the important things that are neccesary for the future.

I am hearing the word containers everywhere, but I don't know what exactly it mean, to all those who have questions like what is containers and why we need containers? The answers are given below.

Containers are nothing but a complete package of an application that contains your code, it's dependencies and all it's libraries. Just imagine a suitcase that holds all your belongings and that can be accessed anywhere, Containers do the same; because of this feature, an application runs fast and reliably from one computation enviornment to another.

I hope you got an answer for what is containers, now let's discuss Docker.

Is it possible to club all my dependencies, libraries and my code in to a single package? If the answer is yes, then how it can be done? Yes, it can be done by Docker. Docker is nothing but a tool that is used to package software into containers. Containers are isolated from each other and they can communicate to each other through well defined channels.

Why we need containers?

The most important advantage of containerization is the containerized software runs same on all platform, regardless of infrastructure.

How are containers and Azure Kubernetes related?

The next important doubt that comes after discussing the above topic is Azure Kubernetes. Just imagine you had a package of software as container, You'll need a service to build and deploy those packages (containerized software). Here comes Azure Jubernetes service to build and deploy a containerized application.

The main use of azure kubernetes is to act as a single platform to build, deliver and scale containerized application with confidence.

Let's deploy our new .NET Core web apps in Azure kubernetes with Azure DevOps.

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