Docker
I've written before about developing software in Docker containers and while that has been a step forward for development and being able to isolate development environments, the strength of Docker has always been in running applications without having to worry about requirements or dependencies. For managing clusters of
.NET Core
Since the beginning of time .NET Core there has been one continuous annoyance about developing cross-platform solutions, including build scripts for windows and non-windows platforms. We have at least fallen into a standard pattern, most repositories will contain both a build.cmd and build.sh that will build the project
Docker
Ah, a new open source project that looks interesting. Let's pull it down from GitHub, open it up in the IDE of our choice and.... Oh... It turns out the build scripts assume you have some build tool already installed or, even worse, a specific version of it.