.NET Stack

Overview

dotnet-stack is a .NET application. It's designed to showcase the integration of .NET with industry-standard technologies including Nginx as a high-performance web server, Redis for caching, PostgreSQL as a relational database, and leveraging Docker for containerization.

Features

• .NET: Framework for building web apps.
• Nginx: A high-performance HTTP server and reverse proxy.
• Redis: An in-memory data structure store, used as cache.
• PostgreSQL: A powerful, open-source object-relational database system.
• Docker: Containerization for consistent deployment and scalability.

Prerequisites

• .NET 7
• Docker
• Docker Compose

Getting Started

To get started with dotnet-stack, clone this repository to your local machine.

git clone https://github.com/thatjimmi/dotnet-stack.git
cd dotnet-stack

Installation

1. Ensure Docker and Docker Compose are installed on your system.
2. Build and run the containers:

docker-compose up --build

Running Migrations with Entity Framework

Before the application can run, the database schema needs to be created. Here's how to run EF migrations within the Docker environment:

1. Ensure the PostgreSQL container is running as the migrations will need to access the database.
2. Run the following command to execute migrations:

docker-compose run --rm app dotnet ef database update

The app service should be the name of the service defined in your docker-compose.yml that runs the .NET application. Replace app with the correct service name if it's different.

Usage

After launching the containers, the web application will be accessible at http://localhost.

Application Configuration

Details on configuring each part of the stack:

• Nginx: Configurations for reverse proxy, load balancing, logs, and caching are located in /Nginx/nginx.conf.