.NET 8 Container Improvements and Workflows - Richard Lander

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# .NET 8 Container Improvements and Workflows

Containers are pervasive across cloud workloads, for both serverless and infrastructure services. You might think that for the .NET team that we wrote a Dockerfile to containerize .NET and we were done. Not so! I'll cover the features and workflows that we've built for .NET, with a focus on what's new for containers in .NET 8. This will include non-root containers, distroless images, and targeting an x64 cloud from Apple M1 machines. Demos will include a mix of docker and kubectl.

Bio:
Richard Lander is a Principal Program Manager on the .NET team at Microsoft. He works on making .NET work great in the cloud, in memory-limited Docker containers, and on ARM hardware like the Raspberry Pi.

He is part of the design team that defines new .NET runtime capabilities and features. Richard also focuses on making the .NET open source project a safe inclusive place for people to learn, do interesting projects and develop their skills. He also writes extensively for the .NET blog.

Richard reported for work at Microsoft in 2000, having just graduated from the University of Waterloo (Canada) with an Honours English degree, with intensive study areas in Computer Science and SGML/XML Markup Languages. In his spare time, he swims, bikes and runs and enjoys using power tools. He grew up in Canada and New Zealand.

This will be recorded and made available soon after. You can find recordings on https://usergroup.tv and https://youtube.com/@tulsadnug