A crashed build due to an SDK upgrade or the tedious way to compile an old code state should be familiar to most. To make this a thing of the past, Configuration as Code becomes even more important for the build infrastructure. But how do I do that? VM images for every OS and SDK version? Cumbersome! Docker, on the other hand, is lightweight and is ideal for use as a build infrastructure environment with SDKs such as .NET, .NET Core or NodeJs.
This talk will show how to integrate Docker into your build pipeline, whether as a multi-container build or simply as an isolated environment for build instructions. With Azure Pipelines, we can even go a step further and run complex environments with multiple container instances, for example to run an integration or system test.