Are you looking for a fast and easy way to create and run .NET applications using Docker containers without writing any Dockerfile? If so, you will be glad to know that Microsoft has introduced a new feature of the .NET SDK 7.0.200 that makes it possible to create and publish OCI container images directly from your project file. We have seen how “.NET 7 SDK built-in container support and Ubuntu Chiseled“ can be used together. It lets us create small and secure containers for our .NET applications easily. We went from a first docker image of 216MB down to 48.3 MB. That is more than a 77% reduction in size. .NET SDK 7.0.200 bring some new capabilities. We will explore some in this post.
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