In this chapter, you learned about virtual machines and containers, and understood the difference between containers and VMs, various containerization technologies, and how the containerization fundamentals in today's world make up the full ecosystem, especially docker-based containers.
You also learned about the core of DevOps, practices including the CI and CD processes, and how it is becoming common in modern cloud-based development and deployment scenarios. Along the way, we also gave recommendations on the most popular tools for the right job in today's market. Now, the reader will be able to learn the emerging Architecture practices of the industry in a succinct and concise way with the .NET Core environment.
We went on to implement a sample microservices-containers-based application, something which we chose to skip in the Chapter 9, Microservices Architecture, and decided to demonstrate...