.NET is a free, open-source development platform for building numerous apps, such as web apps, web APIs, serverless functions in the cloud, mobile apps and much more. .NET is a general purpose development platform maintained by Microsoft and the .NET community on GitHub. It is cross-platform, supporting Windows, macOS and Linux, and can be used in device, cloud, and embedded/IoT scenarios.
Docker is quite popular among the .NET community. .NET Core can easily run in a Docker container. .NET has several capabilities that make development easier, including automatic memory management, (runtime) generic types, reflection, asynchrony, concurrency, and native interop. Millions of developers take advantage of these capabilities to efficiently build high-quality applications.
Building the Application
In this tutorial, you will see how to containerize a .NET application using Docker Compose. The application used in this blog is a Webapp communicating with a Postgresql database. When the page is loaded, it will query the Student table for the record with ID and display the name of student on the page.
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