In the last posts, we looked at the code to build a HipChat Connect add-on with ASP.NET Core, run the solution in a Docker container and secure the access to the application with a valid HTTPS certificate that we got from Let’s Encrypt for free and finally deploy all of this on Azure!

Following my previous posts on ASP.NET Core RC2, Docker and HipChat Connect add-on and Deploying Docker containers running ASP.NET Core RC2 to Microsoft Azure Cloud I needed, as promised in the last post, to come with a solution to secure the whole with an HTTPS certificate!

Following my previous post on ASP.NET Core RC2, Docker and HipChat Connect add-on I wanted to learn the next step which is to deploy my Docker container on the Microsoft Azure Cloud!

This weekend ASP.NET Core RC2 was starting to show up! And it finally was released today. Get it fresh from here. We had here a long three days weekend with quite awful gray clouds and cold weather for the season, so a perfect excuse to get started!