Containerize .NET Core + SQL Server: Docker vs Docker Compose (2025)

🚀 Complete Docker Tutorial: Containerize .NET Core Apps with SQL Server in 2025

Master Docker containerization from scratch! Learn to dockerize .NET Core applications with SQL Server using both Docker commands and Docker Compose. Perfect for beginners - no prior Docker experience needed.

🎯 What You'll Master:
✅ Docker fundamentals (images, containers, CLI, Docker Desktop)
✅ SQL Server 2022 container setup
✅ .NET Core application dockerization
✅ Container creation with plain Docker commands
✅ Docker Compose for multi-container applications

💡 Perfect for developers wanting to level up their DevOps skills!

💻Source Code: https://github.com/rd003/DotnetDocker...

⌨️ Commands to create a sql-server container:
docker run -e "ACCEPT_EULA=Y" -e "MSSQL_SA_PASSWORD=p@55w0rd" `
-p 1433:1433 --name mssql-dev --hostname sql1 `
-v sqlvolume:/var/opt/mssql `
-d mcr.microsoft.com/mssql/server:2022-latest

📜 Blog posts for the same topic:

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⌛ Timestamps:

(00:00 - 04:27) Tech and tools needed
(04:27 - 16:01) Spin up sql server in docker
(16:01 - 23:17) Clone and configuring dotnet application
(23-17 - 35:23) Creating image of dotnet app
(35:23 - 43:40) Running dotnet image in docker
(43:40 - 58:30) Docker compose

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