Cloud as a Story - Vunvulea Radu

In this post, I will try to find answers and guidance for technical people that needs to decide if they shall use .NET Core or .NET Framework inside Docker containers on Azure. The same answer is applicable for on-premises, because Docker runs in the same way on Azure or on-premises. The directions from Microsoft related to this topic are clear. The default option shall be .NET Core. From this way, .NET Core is design in a such a way that is align with container concepts. For example the footprint was reduced drastically in comparison with .NET Framework. One interesting fact that people do not know is related to the type of Windows image that you need to use when you use .NET Core or .NET Framework together with containers. When you use .NET Framework you need to use a Windows Server Core. This image is heavier than Windows Nano Server. This can have a direct impact at infrastructure and resources requirements. There are many things to say why Windows Nano Server is better, a few ...

Durring 18th and 19th of November, another edition of ITDays  took place in Cluj-Napoca. This was the 4th edition of ITDays. In comparison with other years, this edition was not only bigger, but the quality of speakers and the content was much better. I would even say that ITDays evolved in a good conference where you can find good quality content. I had a great time and I hope that we will meet next year to. I was invited at ITDays to talk about Docker on Windows. The most funny thing was that I prepared the slides 3 weeks before the event. During this period Docker team together with Microsoft released some new features for Windows and I had to update my slides and demos. Title: Docker + .NET Core Demos Abstract : Come to join a 30 minutes demo, where we will discover how we can work with Docker and .NET Core, how we can run Docker on Linux and Windows and what are the most important commands that we shall know. At the end of the session we identify 3 cases when...

After the last post , I received two interesting questions related to Docker and Windows. People were interested if we do Win32 API calls from a Docker container and if there is support for COM. WIN32 Support To test calls to WIN32 API, let’s try to populate SYSTEM_INFO class. [StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential)] public struct SYSTEM_INFO { public uint dwOemId; public uint dwPageSize; public uint lpMinimumApplicationAddress; public uint lpMaximumApplicationAddress; public uint dwActiveProcessorMask; public uint dwNumberOfProcessors; public uint dwProcessorType; public uint dwAllocationGranularity; public uint dwProcessorLevel; public uint dwProcessorRevision; } ... [DllImport("kernel32")] static extern void GetSystemInfo(ref SYSTEM_INFO pSI); ... SYSTEM_INFO pSI = new SYSTEM_INFO(...