In today's episode, we are pleased to welcome back Matt Milner, Pluralsight Author, speaker, and consultant.  We conclude our series on .NET and Containers with Part 3: Getting Started with Containers, and the Future of .NET and Containers.  If you haven't listened to our first two episodes on container basics and container conflict, we recommend doing so before listening to this one.  Without further ado, let's get to our conversation with Matt.

1:05 Container success stories
2:30 Challenges/limitations
4:45 Getting started with containers
6:30 Using GitHub Codespaces with Visual Studio
8:40 Docker - what's coming in the future?
11:00 Future of .NET execution in containers
11:40 Combating intimidation around hosting
12:20 Azure Container Instances

Thanks to Matt for this third and final installation of our series on .NET and Containers.  You can reach Matt at @milnertweet on Twitter and see his Pluralsight courses at https://www.pluralsight.com/authors/matt-milner. A special thanks also to Josie Bigler for writing the core of the questions we asked in this podcast series - just don't blame him for the bad jokes. :-)

The Development Best Practices Podcast is brought to you by ILM Professional Services.  Do you have .NET application that could benefit from containerization?  Or maybe you already have containers in place and need to figure out how to optimize them.  In either case, ILM can help.  Please visit ilmservice.com today to get some help.

We are pleased to welcome back Matt Milner, Pluralsight Author, speaker and consultant. Matt and Jason continue their talk around .NET and Containers with Part 2 of our 3 part series: Avoiding Container Conflict and Using Pipelines.  If you haven't listened to our first episode on Container basics, VMs, and Docker, we would recommend you do so before listening to this one.

1:05 Docker Use Cases
2:20 Using containers to set up development environment
3:15 DockerHub and other prebuilt container images
5:40 Docker CoPilot coming?  VS Extensions and IntelliSense
7:35 Recommended Visual Studio container integrations
9:35 Multiple Containers - how to avoid conflicts
12:40 CI/CD pipelines and containers

Many thanks to Matt for this second episode in our three part series.  Make sure to check back in a few weeks for the final episode of our .NET and Containers series: getting started with containers and the future of .NET and containers.

You can reach Matt at @milnertweet on Twitter and see his Pluralsight courses at https://www.pluralsight.com/authors/matt-milner

The Development Best Practices Podcast is brought to you by ILM Professional Services.  Do you have .NET application that could benefit from containerization?  Or maybe you already have containers in place and need to figure out how to optimize them.  In either case, ILM can help.  Please visit ilmservice.com today to find out how.

On today's episode we are pleased to welcome Matt Milner, Pluralsight Author, speaker and consultant.  Minnesota Developers Conference attendees know Matt from the great talks he's given over the years on everything from Serverless Computing to Maui.  Today's episode begins a 3-part series that will walk you through container basics, dealing with container conflict, using containers in pipelines, and the future of containers and .NET.  

3:12 Best practices in snow removal
5:22 Containers - top down and bottom up definitions
6:40 Difference between images and containers
7:53 What are volumes in this context?
9:08 Difference between containers and VMs
10:58 Containers on Windows machines
12:08 Containers, Docker, and desktop development
13:20 Docker vs. Kubernetes

Many thanks to Matt for a great first episode in our series.  Make sure to check back in a few weeks for  part II of our .NET and Containers series: Avoiding Container Conflict.

You can reach Matt at @milnertweet on Twitter and see his Pluralsight courses at https://www.pluralsight.com/authors/matt-milner

The Development Best Practices Podcast is brought to you by ILM Professional Services.  Do you have .NET application that could benefit from containerization?  Or maybe you already have containers in place and need to figure out how to optimize them.  In either case, ILM can help.  Please visit ilmservice.com today to find out how.