With SQL Server running on Linux and .NET Core being a cross platform framework, it's now possible to run what used to be windows only systems on pretty much any platform. Using containers, we can be up and running with the infrastructure for a whole system within minutes.

In one hour, I will show you a couple different ways to configure containers for a data driven application and some ways to deploy the application. You will learn how to add functionality to existing container images. We will deploy systems to our own laptop and to Azure Container Instance and we will briefly look at network security inside a container group.

This session is focused on test environments most of all, but much of what is being said is valid for production environments as well, only you'd have to think a bit more about redundancy, persistance and security in production.

You don't need to know much about containers to appreciate the contents of this session. But it's good if you have at least a hunch about application development, and some knowledge about SQL Server.