In the previous part of this series I have discussed the reasons behind our decision to use Docker to run our product in production, using it to build and deploy images onto Amazon ECS. The next parts of this series will focus in on how we have achieved that and demonstrate how you can set […]
Author: Steve Gordon
Steve Gordon is a Pluralsight author, 7x Microsoft MVP, and a .NET engineer at Elastic where he maintains the .NET APM agent and related libraries. Steve is passionate about community and all things .NET related, having worked with ASP.NET for over 21 years.
Steve enjoys sharing his knowledge through his blog, in videos and by presenting talks at user groups and conferences. Steve is excited to participate in the active .NET community and founded .NET South East, a .NET Meetup group based in Brighton. He enjoys contributing to and maintaining OSS projects. You can find Steve on most social media platforms as @stevejgordon
Announcing .NET South East A new Brighton based .NET User Group
It’s been an exciting few weeks for me recently. First I was accepted to talk at two conferences in September, then our latest product at work went live, then I got a promotion at work and now I’ve decided to start a new .NET user group in Brighton which is call .NET South East. The […]
Speaking at Progressive .NET Tutorials 2017
Back in early May I was listening to a .NET Rocks episode when Carl and Richard mention a conference called Progressive .NET Tutorials that they would be attending in London. I’m a big believer in attending conferences as I find that it’s to be a great way to learn new skills and network with similarly […]
Docker for .NET Developers (Part 6) Using Docker for Build and Continuous Deployment
In part 3 I discussed one of the first motivations which led our team to begin using Docker. That motivation was focused on making the workflow for our front end developers quicker and simpler. In this post I want to explore a second motivation which led to us fully embrace Docker on our project. Just […]
Docker for .NET Developers (Part 5) Exploring ASP.NET Runtime Docker Images
So far in previous posts we’ve been looking at basic demo dockerfiles which use the aspnetcore-build base image. This is okay for testing but does present some issues for actual deployment. One disadvantage of the build image is its size. Since it contains all of the elements needed to build .NET Core applications it is […]