Hands-On RESTful Web Services with ASP.NET Core 3

Summary

In this chapter, we provided a quick overview of the capabilities of Docker and how to use it to improve isolation, maintainability, and service reliability. We looked at the different Docker images supplied by Microsoft and how to use them combined with a multi-step build approach.

The topics covered in this chapter provide an easy way to run our service locally, in an isolated environment, and spread the same environment configuration into staging and production environments.

In the next chapter, we are going to improve our knowledge of how to share information between multiple services. We will also explore some patterns to do with multi-service systems. The concepts related to Docker that we explored in this chapter will also ...