Docker for custom build process

Question

I have an executable that performs a number of tasks such as:

1. Copy .NET source code to a directory
2. Run another executable that modifies the source code
3. Run MSBuild to build the code
4. Publish the code
5. Run add-migration to create database
6. Run another executable that populates the database from files etc.

I've set this up on my laptop, and everything works correctly, and now I want to publish this to the cloud.

Is it possible to create a docker image that does all these kinds of things, and run it on Azure Container Instances? Or do I need to run this kind of system on a VM?

I'm new to docker so don't know what it's capable of, but if I can run it on ACI as-needed that would be great, so I'm not paying for a VM 24/7 when this process only happens a few times a day

Answer 1

Docker is an open source centralised plateform design to create, Deploy and run Application.Its uses OS level of virtualization.Docker uses container on host to run the application.Container is also like a Virtaul Machine but its advantage, there is no preallocation of RAM as we have in VM.

Is it possible to create a docker image that does all these kinds of things, and run it on Azure Container Instances? Or do I need to run this kind of system on a VM?

Yes it is possible to create docker images using docker compose yaml file . In that yaml file you need to write all the task you want to peroform and then build an images of that file and push it container registery and create a conatainer instance of it.

You can take reference of these thread for Copy source code and to add it into docker image using Dockerfile.and how to create database in docker container using yaml file