30: .NET and Containers: Getting Started, and the Future of Containers

 In today's episode, we are pleased to welcome back Matt Milner, Pluralsight Author, speaker, and consultant.  We conclude our series on .NET and Containers with Part 3: Getting Started with Containers, and the Future of .NET and Containers.  If you haven't listened to our first two episodes on container basics and container conflict, we recommend doing so before listening to this one.  Without further ado, let's get to our conversation with Matt.

1:05 Container success stories
2:30 Challenges/limitations
4:45 Getting started with containers
6:30 Using GitHub Codespaces with Visual Studio
8:40 Docker - what's coming in the future?
11:00 Future of .NET execution in containers
11:40 Combating intimidation around hosting
12:20 Azure Container Instances

Thanks to Matt for this third and final installation of our series on .NET and Containers.  You can reach Matt at @milnertweet on Twitter and see his Pluralsight courses at https://www.pluralsight.com/authors/matt-milner. A special thanks also to Josie Bigler for writing the core of the questions we asked in this podcast series - just don't blame him for the bad jokes. :-)

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