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2. Packaging CLI programs into Docker images to avoid dependency hell

   In this post I show how to create a Docker image containing your favourite CLI tool, and a helper script for invoking it. I demonstrate with the AWS CLI.…

   October 08, 2019 in AWS Docker Docker Hub
3. A bootstrapper script for the Cake .NET Core Global Tool on Alpine using ash

   In this post I provide an Almquist shell (ash) bootstrapper script for the Cake.Tool .NET Core global tool on Alpine Linux…

   August 15, 2019 in .NET Core Cake DevOps Docker
4. How to build with Cake on Linux using Cake.CoreCLR or the Cake global tool

   In this post I show how to build .NET Core projects on Linux using the Cake.CoreCLR library or the .NET Core global tool Cake.Tool.…

   August 06, 2019 in .NET Core Cake DevOps Docker
5. Exploring the .NET Core MCR Docker files (updated): runtime vs aspnet vs sdk

   In this post, I look at the various Docker base images available for .NET Core development on MCR, how they differ, and when you should use each of them.…

   March 26, 2019 in Docker Docker Hub DevOps ASP.NET Core ASP.NET Core 2.2 .NET Core
6. Caching Docker layers on serverless build hosts with multi-stage builds, --target, and --cache-from

   In this post I describe how I improved the build performance of ASP.NET Core Docker containers built using AWS CodeBuild by using --target and --cache-from.…

   November 27, 2018 in ASP.NET Core Docker AWS DevOps
7. Running smoke tests for ASP.NET Core apps in CI using Docker

   In this post I'll describe how to use Docker to run a smoke test as part of a CI build pipeline to check that an ASP.NET Core app is able to start up…

   August 28, 2018 in ASP.NET Core Docker DevOps Testing