Using Docker with Windows Server 2016 to modernize ASP.NET applications - a feature-driven approach. Starting with an ASP.NET WebForms apps, how to run the app in Docker and then modernize it using the Docker platform. From NDC London 2017.

1. The Velvet Revolution
Dockerizing Traditional .NET Apps
Elton Stoneman | Developer Advocate
@EltonStoneman | elton@docker.com

2. Today
• The Docker platform
• ASP.NET apps in Docker
• Modernizing apps with Docker

3. Not Today
• Microservices
• DevOps
• Cloud
• .NET Core
• Nano Server
• Linux

4. GET
v1

5. GET
v2

6. GET
v3

7. GET
v4

8. GET
v5

9. Docker is a Platform

10. .NET Fx
ASP.NET
Web App
Server Core
IIS
> docker build

11. # escape=`
FROM microsoft/windowsservercore
SHELL ["powershell", "-Command"]
RUN Add-WindowsFeature Web-server, `
NET-Framework-45-ASPNET, Web-Asp-Net45; `
Remove-Website -Name 'Default Web Site'
COPY ProductLaunchWeb /product-launch-web
RUN New-Website -Name 'product-launch' `
-PhysicalPath 'C:product-launch-web' -Port 80
EXPOSE 80
COPY bootstrap.ps1 /
ENTRYPOINT ./bootstrap.ps1

12. > docker push
hub.docker.com

14. > docker run

15. Dockerizing ASP.NET

16. GET
• Consistency
– Build & store
– Run & manage
• Foundation
– Fast, safe deployment
– Break up monoliths
v2

17. Modernizing Apps with Docker

18. Performance
Heavy usage
crashes app
Data Insight
Support ticket
for queries
UX
Full release
for UI change

19. Performance
Heavy usage
crashes app
Data Insight
Support ticket
for queries
UX
Full release
for UI change

20. Performance Feature Demo

21. GET
v3

22. GET
v3

23. Performance
Heavy usage
crashes app
Data Insight
Support ticket
for queries

24. Data Insight Feature Demo

25. GET
v4

26. GET
v4

27. Performance
Heavy usage
crashes app
Data Insight
Support ticket
for queries
UX
Full release
for UI change

28. UX Feature Demo

29. GET
v5

30. GET
v5

31. Performance
Heavy usage
crashes app
Data Insight
Support ticket
for queries
UX
Full release
for UI change

32. From
• ASP.NET WebForms app
• SQL Server database

33. To
• Event-driven architecture
• Self-service analytics
• Self-service content

34. Takeaways
• Docker is a mature platform
• Moving apps into Docker is easy
• Dockerizing enables modernizing

36. • Docker Labs
• Docker Captains
• DockerCon
• @EltonStoneman
What Next?

37. THANK YOU