Overview of Azure Continuous Delivery

In this Post , We’ll share the Process how you can Develop and Deploy .NET Application using Docker and Kubernetes and Adopt DevOps in existing .NET Applications

Continuous delivery is a branch of continuous integration. It concentrates on automating the software delivery process so that teams can quickly and confidently deploy their code to production at any point.

Prerequisites for Implementing Continuous Delivery

To follow this guide you need

Kubernetes – Kubernetes is an open source platform that automates container operations and Minikube is best for testing Kubernetes.

Kubectl – Kubectl is command line interface to manage Kubernetes cluster either remotely or locally. To configure kubectl in your machine follow this link.

Shared Persistent Storage – Shared Persistent Storage is permanent storage that we can attach to the Kubernetes container so that we don`t lose our data even container died. We will be using GlusterFS as a persistent data store for Kubernetes container applications.

.NET Application Source Code – Application Source Code is source code that we want to run inside a kubernetes container.

Dockerfile – Dockerfile contains a bunch of commands to build .NET application.

Container-Registry – The Container Registry is an online image store for container images.

Below mentioned options are few most popular registries.

Create a Dockerfile

The below-mentioned code is sample dockerfile for .NET applications. In which we are using Microsoft .NET 1.1 SDK for .NET Application.

Building .NET Application Image

The below-mentioned command will build your application container image.

Publishing Container Image

Now we publish our .NET application container images to any container registry like Docker Hub, AWS ECR, Google Container Registry, Private Docker Registry.

We are using Azure Container Registry for publishing Container Images.

You also need to Sign Up on Azure Cloud Platform and then create Container Registry using this link.

Now Click The Link to Pull and Push to Azure Container Registry.

Similarly, we can Push or Pull any container image to any of the below-mentioned Container Registry like Docker Hub, AWS ECR, Private Docker Registry, Google Container Registry etc.

Creating Deployment Files for Kubernetes

Deploying application on kubernetes with ease using deployment and service files either in JSON or YAML format.

Deployment File

Following Content is for “<name of application>.deployment.yml” file of Python container application.

Service File

Following Content is for “<name of application>.service.yml” file of Python container application.

Running .NET Application on Kubernetes

.NET Application Container can be deployed either by kubernetes Dashboard or Kubectl (Command line).

I`m explaining command line that you can use in production Kubernetes cluster.

Now we have successfully deployed .NET Application on Kubernetes.

Verification

We can verify application deployment either by using Kubectl or Kubernetes Dashboard.

The below-mentioned command will show you running pods of your application with status running/terminated/stop/created.

Result of above command

Testing

Get the External Node Port using the below-mentioned command. External Node Port are in the range from 30000 to 65000.

Launch web Browser and open any of the below-mentioned URLs.

http://<kubernetes master ip address >: <application service port number>

http://<cluster ip address >: <application port number>

Notes – For above specific .NET Application, you will get the Pods Output.

Troubleshooting

Check Status of Pods.

Check Logs of Pods/Containers.

Check Service Port Status.

Check requirements/dependencies of application.

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