.NET SDK Container Building Tools

This project consists of APIs and MSBuild Tasks for generating and testing an OCI Container from a .NET project.

A basic start with tooling

for existing web project (the package is part of `Microsoft.NET.SDK.Web):

dotnet publish --os linux --arch x64 -t:PublishContainer

for existing non-web project:

dotnet add package Microsoft.NET.Build.Containers
dotnet publish --os linux --arch x64 -c Release /t:PublishContainer

You can learn more about the project from the project Documentation.

Prerequisites

.NET 7 SDK or later

Contributing

This repo only contains documentation and issues for the project.

The source code was moved to dotnet/sdk repo. For easiness, please use containers.slnf filter in case the intention is only to build and debug containers source code.

If you would like to contribute by creating a pull request, please refer to dotnet/sdk contributing guide. Ideally, prior starting the effort find a corresponding issue in this repo and let us and others know in a comment. If you plan to address the problem that is not reflected in any issue, please create one. Consider helping us triaging the pull request by adding 'Area-Containers' repo.

Development documentation is available here