Deploying ASP.NET 5 Applications To Docker

Scope

This articles introduces the concept of Docker containers and demonstrates how an ASP.NET 5 application can be deployed to an ASP.NET container in a Linux Virtual Machine on Azure.

Prerequisite

.NET Core

.NET Core 5 is an open source stack and can run on multiple operating systems.

It is a modular implementation that can be used in several devices, is available as an open source, and is supported by Microsoft on Windows, Linux and Mac OSX.

.NET Core is not specific to either .NET Native nor ASP.NET 5. Therefore, it forms the foundation for all future .NET verticals, even additional to ASP.NET or Windows Store.

ASP.NET 5

ASP.NET 5 is now a single framework that runs on top of either .NET Core 5 runtime (Core-CLR) or the .NET Framework runtime (CLR).

ASP.NET 5 is the first workload that has adopted .NET Core. ASP.NET 5 runs on both the .NET Framework and .NET Core.

A key value of ASP.NET 5 is that it can run on multiple versions of .NET Core 5 on the same machine. Website A and website B can run on two different versions of .NET Core on the same machine, or they can use the same version.

Introduction

What is Docker?

Docker allows you to package an application with all of its dependencies into a standardized unit for software development.