Continuous Integration for ASP.NET with Docker, Azure Devops

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: About Course

Lecture 1: Know your Instructor – Who is Gourav Shah ?

Chapter 2: Introduction to CI with Azure Devops and Docker for .NET

Lecture 1: Why Container Based Software Delivery ?

Lecture 2: What is Continuous Integration and Delivery

Lecture 3: CI/CD Workflow with Docker and Kubernetes

Lecture 4: Running .NET Applications with Docker

Lecture 5: What is Azure Devops ?

Lecture 6: The Docker Story

Lecture 7: Containers vs VMs

Lecture 8: Two Ways on Windows – Hyper-V and Windows Containers

Lecture 9: Technologies Under the Hood – Namespaces, CGroups, Layers

Lecture 10: Docker Architecture and Eco System

Chapter 3: Environment Setup

Lecture 1: Setup Azure Account

Lecture 2: Launch Windows 10 VM on Azure

Lecture 3: Install and configure Docker to run Windows Containers

Chapter 4: Running and Operating Windows Containers

Lecture 1: Getting started with Docker Client

Lecture 2: Understand Docker Registries

Lecture 3: Learn to pull and examine Images

Lecture 4: Launch your first Ephemeral Container

Lecture 5: Working with a interactive container

Lecture 6: Running containers in detached mode

Lecture 7: Debugging container applications with logs

Lecture 8: Getting inside the container with Exec

Lecture 9: Exposing application with Port Mapping

Lecture 10: Managing Container's Lifecycle

Lecture 11: Lab

Chapter 5: Dockerizing a ASP .NET Core App

Lecture 1: Create a environment to build ASP .NET Core App

Lecture 2: Build a ASP .NET Core App within a Container

Lecture 3: Committing Container's Changes to an Image

Lecture 4: Why do you need a Dockerfile?

Lecture 5: Automated build of an image with a Dockerfile

Lecture 6: Publishing Docker Image to Docker Hub

Lecture 7: Lab O'Clock

Lecture 8: The secret behind Image Layers – Iterative Image Build

Lecture 9: Deep Dive into Dockerfile Instructions

Lecture 10: Analyzing a Dockerfile for ASP .NET App

Chapter 6: Advanced Image Building Projects

Lecture 1: What is a Multi Stage Dockerfile

Lecture 2: Nano Project – Refactor Dockerfile for ASP .NET app with Multi Stage

Lecture 3: Solution

Lecture 4: Lab O'Clock

Lecture 5: Research Project

Lecture 6: Nano Project – Dockerize a Legacy ASP .NET Framework App

Lecture 7: Solution Part I – Build app with .NET Framework SDK Image

Lecture 8: Solution Part II – Test run ASP .NET Framework App

Lecture 9: Solution Part III – Write a Multi Stage Dockerfile to automate image build

Chapter 7: Deploying Containers with Docker Compose

Lecture 1: AlbumViewer Application Stack Use Case

Lecture 2: Imperative approach to launch AlbumViewer Container Stack

Lecture 3: Introducing Docker Compose

Lecture 4: Building docker-compose.yaml with YAML

Lecture 5: Launching Two Tier Application with Compose

Lecture 6: More docker-compose commands

Lecture 7: Service Discovery with Docker Compose

Lecture 8: Integration Dockerfile with Compose

Lecture 9: Idempotence and Immutable Deployments

Lecture 10: Lab O'Clock

Chapter 8: Building CI Pipelines with Azure Devops

Lecture 1: Creating Azure Devops Account

Lecture 2: Importing a GitHub repo to Azure Devops

Lecture 3: Creating a simple a ASP .NET Build Pipeline

Lecture 4: Modifying Pipeline and Triggering Manually

Lecture 5: Adding a Docker Based Build Pipeline

Lecture 6: Setup Azure Container Registry

Lecture 7: Retagging and pushing images to ACR

Lecture 8: Docker build and ACR Publish Pipeline

Chapter 9: Deploy to Dev with Compose and Azure Devops

Lecture 1: Configuring Docker Host to Accept Remote Connections

Lecture 2: Debugging Issue with TLS Certs and Docker Image

Lecture 3: Adding Service Connection to a Docker Host

Lecture 4: Sync GitHub and Azure Repos with Git Remotes

Lecture 5: Adding Deploy to Dev Stage with Docker Compose

Lecture 6: Troubleshooting Connectivity Issues

Lecture 7: How to Detect and Fix Firewall Issues