A starter template for development of ASP .NET Core Web API inside Docker containers with Visual Studio Code

1. Install the prerequisites
   • Docker for Desktop
   • Visual Studio Code
     • install extention Remote Development
   • git
2. Clone the repo

   git clone https://github.com/vtrifonov-esfiddle/aspnet-webapi-starter.git
   

3. Open the repo root directory in VS Code
4. Press F1 in VS Code
5. type >Remote-Containers: Reopen in Container
6. Press F5 in VS Code to start debugging
7. On your dev machine navigate to http://localhost:5000/

The following environment variables are available for aspnet-webapi-starter container

• WORKSPACE_DIR_DOCKER_MOUNT
  • this is the repository workspace root directory docker mount
  • e.g /host_mnt/c/GithubRepos/aspnet-webapi-starter
  • necessary for bind mounts because you cannot start nested docker container from aspnet-webapi-starter on non-linux host machine
    • see bind mounts propagation
• DOCKER_REGISTRY
  • your github docker registry
  • allows you to tag/push/pull images to your docker registry without hardcoding it
    • you need to login to the registry to use it
  • e.g: docker.pkg.github.com/vtrifonov-esfiddle/aspnet-webapi-starter
    • this matches docker.pkg.github.com/${{ github.repository }} from the github workflow CI
• GITHUB_USERNAME
  • your github username

To work locally with your docker registry you need read and write access. Performs the steps once you have generated your repo from the template

1. create PAT (personal access token) with the following permissions via https://github.com/settings/tokens
   • read:packages
   • repo, write:packages
2. on the dev container login to the registry using PAT
   • the username is provided via an environment variable available on the dev container

docker login docker.pkg.github.com -u $GITHUB_USERNAME