Building a Deployment Pipeline for ASP.NET Core with Docker

Pluralsight

Course Summary

Thanks to containers and images, Docker makes it incredibly easy to build out a complex deployment pipeline. This course will take you from development through to production with your ASP.NET applications.

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Course Description

Automating a deployment pipeline was feasible pre-Docker, but was a hassle. Now thanks to containers and images, it's incredibly easy to spin up pipelines. In this course, Building a Deployment Pipeline for ASP.NET Core with Docker, you'll setup a pipeline to build, unit test, and package up an ASP.NET Core app into an image. The pipeline will be triggered every time someone commits to version control. First, you'll learn how the app image is pushed to a private registry and used to perform integration testing with multi-container tests, including a web site, email server, and integration test runner. Next, if all testing passes, you'll discover how the pipeline auto deploys to a demo environment, so anyone can test out the latest version of your app in a matter of minutes after a line of code is checked in. Then, you'll dive into how the pipeline can manually trigger deployment to production. Finally, you'll explore containerizing performance testing. By the end of this course, you'll have a pipeline you can deploy for your own applications.

Course Description

Automating a deployment pipeline was feasible pre-Docker, but was a hassle. Now thanks to containers and images, it's incredibly easy to spin up pipelines. In this course, Building a Deployment Pipeline for ASP.NET Core with Docker, you'll setup a pipeline to build, unit test, and package up an ASP.NET Core app into an image. The pipeline will be triggered every time someone commits to version control. First, you'll learn how the app image is pushed to a private registry and used to perform integration testing with multi-container tests, including a web site, email server, and integration test runner. Next, if all testing passes, you'll discover how the pipeline auto deploys to a demo environment, so anyone can test out the latest version of your app in a matter of minutes after a line of code is checked in. Then, you'll dive into how the pipeline can manually trigger deployment to production. Finally, you'll explore containerizing performance testing. By the end of this course, you'll have a pipeline you can deploy for your own applications.

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Course Syllabus

Course Overview
- 1m 16s

—Course Overview 1m 16s

Creating the Pipeline Infrastructure
- 26m 41s

—Pre-req Recap - Docker Images and Containers for ASP.NET Core 2m 41s
—Pipeline Overview 4m 16s
—Accessing the Files for the Start of This Course 3m 18s
—Time for CI 1m 18s
—Creating a Private Registry 3m 27s
—Aliasing the Private Registry in /etc/hosts 1m 33s
—Pushing an Image to the Private Registry 5m 40s
—Creating a TeamCity Cluster with Docker-compose 2m 55s
—TeamCity Setup 1m 31s

Creating a CI Dockerfile with Unit Tests
- 23m 2s

—Big Picture Intro 0m 39s
—Creating a Unit Tests Project 3m 48s
—Testing on the Host 1m 58s
—Starting a Dockerfile for Multiple Projects - Package Restore 6m 11s
—List Files to Inspect What Is Copied into the Image 2m 2s
—Copying in Source 3m 34s
—Running Tests in the Build Stage of the Dockerfile 1m 8s
—Publishing to the Runtime Optimized Image 2m 59s
—Watch Disk Usage - Clean up Images 0m 39s

Building an Image on Every Commit
- 18m 23s

—Big Picture Intro 0m 36s
—Testing Docker on the TeamCity Agent 2m 2s
—Building the Image with TeamCity 3m 52s
—TeamCity Also Has Docker Build Steps 1m 17s
—Set up TeamCity to Push CI Images to the Registry 1m 46s
—Images Are Not Created on Test Failures 1m 51s
—Rich Test Reporting from xUnit to TeamCity 3m 5s
—Image Push Resumes When Tests Are Fixed 1m 32s
—Pulling and Running Multiple Versions of the App in Seconds 2m 18s

Using Docker-compose for Sophisticated Integration Testing
- 43m 9s

—Dreaming of a Deployment Pipeline 4m 41s
—Creating an Email Integration Test 4m 48s
—Simplifying Exploratory Testing with Docker-compose 4m 47s
—Exploratory Testing Alone Is Markedly Improved with Containers 2m 3s
—Writing an Integration Testing Image 3m 31s
—Building the Image and Running It 5m 0s
—Composing Integration Tests 1m 43s
—Be Mindful of Stateful Containers with Integration Tests 1m 19s
—Stepping Through Distributed Logs with Docker-compose 2m 24s
—Stopping the Services When the Tests Complete 3m 6s
—Cleanup with Docker-compose Down 1m 36s
—Force Recreate Containers 1m 13s
—Avoid Published Port Conflicts 2m 47s
—Always Build the Integration Testing Image 4m 4s

Orchestrating Integration Testing on Every Commit
- 28m 7s

—Create a New Deployment Stage for Running Integration Tests 4m 14s
—Adding Docker-compose to the Build Agent with a Dockerfile 5m 40s
—Setup Pipeline with Integration Tests After the Build 3m 56s
—Use Environment Variable Substitution to Inject Build Numbers 6m 44s
—Testing the Pipeline 7m 31s

Demo Deploy on Every Commit
- 21m 39s

—Why Do You Need Clustering? 4m 10s
—Swarm Setup 4m 24s
—Deploying a Swarm Visualizer App 3m 25s
—Deploying a Demo Environment 5m 1s
—Add Demo Deploy to Automated Pipeline 4m 36s

Adding On-demand Testing Environments to the Pipeline
- 9m 53s

—Set up On-demand Testing Deployments to Multiple Environments 6m 30s
—Deploying to Multiple On-demand Environments 3m 22s

Deploying to Production
- 38m 8s

—Production Stacks Often Differ from Testing 1m 21s
—Adding a Production Deployment to the Pipeline 2m 5s
—Watching a Change Flow Through the Pipeline 3m 8s
—Rolling Back to a Previous Build 1m 36s
—Scaling the App Is a Breeze 1m 43s
—Code for Mail Server Configuration 4m 29s
—Setting MailServerConfig When Starting App 2m 48s
—Configuration via Environment Variables Is Easy to Reason About 3m 6s
—Letting Docker Manage Config Files with Docker Config 6m 0s
—Adding in a Reverse Proxy 2m 32s
—Adding a NGINX Service 2m 15s
—Configuring NGINX to Proxy Requests with Docker Config Files 3m 30s
—Hosting Resources 1m 51s
—Consider Adding Health Checks in Production 1m 39s

Using Docker-compose for Performance Testing
- 47m 19s

—Explaining the Perf Testing Environment 5m 19s
—Running the Performance Test 2m 8s
—Just Change Tags to Compare ASP.NET Core 2.0 Versus 1.1 2m 11s
—Impact of Disabling MvcRazorCompileOnPublish 3m 8s
—Inspecting Intermediate Stages in a Multi-stage Build 6m 6s
—The Runtime Package Store Reduces the Publish Folder Size 4m 49s
—The Runtime Package Store Impacts Speed 3m 31s
—What Happens When the Content Root Is Wrong? 2m 47s
—ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT to Enable Environment Specific Behavior 3m 5s
—Building a Windows Container Image Is Slower 6m 35s
—Windows Container Images Are Almost 1GB Bigger 1m 24s
—Windows Docker-compose Workaround for HNS Failed with Error 3m 27s
—What Next? 2m 49s

Course Fee:

USD 29

Course Type:	Self-Study
Course Status:	Active
Workload:	1 - 4 hours / week

This course is listed under Open Source , Development & Implementations , Quality Assurance & Testing and Server & Storage Management Community

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Course Fee:

USD 29

Course Type:	Self-Study
Course Status:	Active
Workload:	1 - 4 hours / week

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Building a Deployment Pipeline for ASP.NET Core with Docker

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Active Server Page (ASP)

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Integration testing

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Clustering

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