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ASP.NET Core MVC 2.0 Cookbook

By : Jason De Oliveira, Engin Polat, Stephane Belkheraz
Book Image

ASP.NET Core MVC 2.0 Cookbook

By: Jason De Oliveira, Engin Polat, Stephane Belkheraz

Overview of this book

The ASP.NET Core 2.0 Framework has been designed to meet all the needs of today’s web developers. It provides better control, support for test-driven development, and cleaner code. Moreover, it’s lightweight and allows you to run apps on Windows, OSX and Linux, making it the most popular web framework with modern day developers. This book takes a unique approach to web development, using real-world examples to guide you through problems with ASP.NET Core 2.0 web applications. It covers Visual Studio 2017- and ASP.NET Core 2.0-specifc changes and provides general MVC development recipes. It explores setting up .NET Core, Visual Studio 2017, Node.js modules, and NuGet. Next, it shows you how to work with Inversion of Control data pattern and caching. We explore everyday ASP.NET Core MVC 2.0 patterns and go beyond it into troubleshooting. Finally, we lead you through migrating, hosting, and deploying your code. By the end of the book, you’ll not only have explored every aspect of ASP.NET Core MVC 2.0, you’ll also have a reference you can keep coming back to whenever you need to get the job done.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Hosting an ASP.NET Core web app in Docker containers


If you publish the project in a local data center, it's not so easy to deploy and configure the ASP.NET Core web application. Before Docker, developers usually deployed their applications to Virtual Servers.

First, they need to provision a Virtual Server, install the full OS on it, then install the required services on it, such as IIS, SQL Server, and so on.

After all these steps, the developer can deploy the application and configure it to run in that Virtual Server. It's not uncommon that projects need different environments, such as dev, test, staging, prod, and so on.

Also, at some time, developers usually differentiate the environment specs and resources, such as port numbers, database connection strings, and even underlying operation systems.

Docker makes it easy to create an environment and configure it with a human-readable text file. This text file is called a DockerFile. We can create an environment and declare its configuration...