.NET Docker Development with Visual Studio 2017

The Discussion

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  Brilliant!  Any chance we can look at the entire Magic 8 Ball solution incl. the Docker project to dissect and ruminate on it?  Thanks!

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  Hi Bob,

  Yes, the sample is located here: https://github.com/SteveLasker/AspNetCoreMultiProject

  Happy coding...

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  This is amazing!!!  One question though...  Let's say I have a database on my local pc.  How do I give my API, running in a container, access to it?

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  I think I figured out my own answer.  I just opened up my firewall to port 1433 (sql port).  Then I access it in the container using the ip address 10.0.75.1.  Can anyone confirm if that is the right way to do it?

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  Docker Support Freakin Fantastic!!!

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  @dderman:Yes, it's one of the approaches. You can also host your database in a container and make the web api talk to the database hosted in another container.

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   Hi,

  I don't have that option in my VS 2017 Enterprise (15.0.26228.9). I cannot find it in Visual Studio Installer too.

  Regards,
  Robert

   

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  I think I figured out my own answer.  I just opened up my firewall to port 1433 (sql port).  Then I access it in the container using the ip address 10.0.75.1.  Can anyone confirm if that is the right way to do it?

  Hi @dderman: I've tried to do the same, but it's still not working for me. How did you figure out the IP address? Could mine be different? and did you specify the ports 1433:1433 in compose file?

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  Awesome!
  Seemless integration with docker.
  very cool indeed..
  Tks
  
  

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  In case anyone is having issues running .NET Core v1.1.1 inside a Docker Container, and then deploying to a Linux Server, I made this tut:
  
  https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/net-core-v111-docker-container-linux-tutorial-joe-hoeller-?published=t

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  Typo in URL above, Correction:
  
  https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/net-core-v111-docker-container-linux-tutorial-joe-hoeller--1

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  How does the web app know where the api app is?
  
  The web app uses the following:
  public Magic8BallController()
  {
  _doSomethingBaseAddress = "http://api";
  _doSomethingAPIUrl = "/Magic8BallApi";
  }
  
  But how does that web container know that the api DNS entry maps to the api container?
  

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  @Peer Jakobsen: It should be a native feature of Docker - Docker DNS knows the lookup of other containers by name.

  https://docs.docker.com/engine/tutorials/networkingcontainers/

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  Is it possible to host an ASP.Net Core app in a windows container instead of a Linux container. I get an error when i try.

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  When using the ASP.Net Core template... How can I switch from using Linux containers to Windows containers?

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  Excellent tutorial, very helpful. Thanks.

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  DanJ210, he subtly covered that at 9:07 when he switched to .net framework. If you're wondering how you can use dotnetcore on windows I would go into the dockerfile and change the image's tag to one that is windows based.

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  Scenario

  I have a Nano Server running on a physical machine.

  The Nano Server has containers enabled and Docker installed.

   

  Is it possible for another machine (physical or vm) on the same subnet running VS2017 to use the new Docker tools to deploy/test to that nano server from within VS2017?

  If so how?