Docker Puppet ASP.NET Example

The Puppet Docker module is a great way of installing and managing Docker on a host, but it also allows for some basic container management.

This repo contains a fairly simple example using Vagrant to launch a Linux virtual machine, then Puppet to install Docker, build an image and run a container. For added spice the container runs a ASP.NET vNext application.

The ASP.NET vNext application example is taken from this excellent blog post from MSDN about running ASP.NET apps in linux containers.

Usage

vagrant up --provider virtualbox
vagrant provision

This will take a little time as it launches a virtual machine and downloads lots of software onto it.

What happened?

Once up you should be able to access 10.20.1.11:5004 and it should show the hello world ASP.NET example.

The text is coming from a docker container on the host app1.

Under the hood

1. The instance (app1) installs docker, builds an image using the Dockerfile and runs a container based on that image.

The interesting Puppet code is found in the application module.