The Velvet Revolution: Dockerizing Legacy ASP.NET Apps

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Shows that a legacy ASP.NET WebForms app runs unmodified inside a Windows Server Core Docker image built from a simple Dockerfile, with SQL Server Express as a container, service-monitor and a health check; the web worker uses ~190 MB RAM. The app then modernizes in stages using Docker Compose, a NATS message queue to decouple web from DB, and an analytics pipeline with ElasticSearch + Kibana. The incremental build delivers independent scaling, self-service reporting and a swappable homepage, and the demo runs end to end.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 5:12start with microsoft windows server core
3. 12:57running sequel server in docker
4. 14:09turn off the dns cache in windows
5. 17:12start sequel server running on my machine in a container
6. 17:31running a new container
7. 18:38passing a value for an environment variable to the application
8. 32:37using a custom database connection string
9. 43:47add a new component
10. 55:00change the landing page

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