Umbraco is an open source content management system which was previously built on the .NET Framework and used for traditional monolithic websites. With the latest version released on .NET 5 (soon v6) this opens a whole new set of possibilities for how to use this CMS.

To illustrate that approach I’ll be showing how to host a sample microservice application built around the Umbraco CMS but with additional features built on separate containers. The entire application will be hosted on Linux on a series of Raspberry Pis to imitate a high performance hosting platform on multiple servers but at a smaller scale and at a fraction of the cost, and that you can run from your own home.

There will also be a sprinkling of fun with this involving RGB LEDs, as it’s more of a demonstration exercise, since nobody in their right mind would actually host an application on a Raspberry Pi, but the great thing about containers is that the same application can be deployed to a cloud like Azure with minimal changes. This is a low cost way of replicating what a production hosting environment would look like but using small, low power but still awesome devices!

The audience will learn a little about
- Networking setup for application hosting
- firewall setup (not the standard home-router)
- Docker
- Linux
- Microservices vs Monolithic architecture
- Architecture differences Arm vs x86
- Umbraco 9 running on .net 5
- Message queues