docker

Last time we went through creating a Dockerfile for a microservice, with the service being compiled on creation of the container image, using xbuild. However we might not want to compile the application to create the container image, and use an existing version (e.g. one created by a build server.) Our original Dockerfile was this: FROM mono:3.10-onbuild RUN apt-get update && apt-get install mono-4.0-service -y CMD [ "mono-service", "./MicroServiceDemo.exe", "--no-daemon" ] EXPOSE 12345 We only need to make a few modifications to use a pre-compiled application:...

Getting a service running under Docker is fairly straight forward once you have all the working parts together. I have an app written (following my guide on service and console in one), which uses Owin to serve a web page as a demo: install-package Microsoft.Owin.SelfHost public partial class Service : ServiceBase { //see the service console post for the rest of this protected override void OnStart(string[] args) { _app = WebApp....