{"id":5915,"date":"2016-11-16T17:38:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T01:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/cesardelatorre\/?p=5915"},"modified":"2016-11-16T17:38:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T01:38:00","slug":"docker-containers-should-i-use-net-core-or-net-framework-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cesardelatorre\/docker-containers-should-i-use-net-core-or-net-framework-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Docker containers \u2013 Should I use .NET Core or .NET Framework?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The short answer is: \u201cFor Docker containers, use .NET Core whenever is possible<\/em>\u201d. But, b<\/span>elow is a summary decision table depending on your architecture or application type and the server operating system you are targeting for your Docker containers.<\/span><\/p>\n

Take into account that if you are targeting Linux containers you will need Linux based Docker hosts (VMs or Servers) and in a similar way, if you are targeting Windows containers you will need Windows Server based Docker hosts (VMs or Servers).<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Architecture \/ App Type<\/span><\/b><\/td>\nLinux containers<\/span><\/b><\/td>\nWindows containers<\/span><\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Microservices<\/span><\/td>\n.NET Core<\/span><\/b><\/td>\n.NET Core<\/span><\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monolithic deployment App<\/span><\/td>\n.NET Core<\/span><\/b><\/td>\n.NET Framework<\/b> <\/span><\/p>\n

.NET Core<\/span><\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Best-in-class performance and scalability<\/span><\/td>\n.NET Core<\/span><\/b><\/td>\n.NET Core<\/span><\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Windows Server \u201cbrown-field\u201d migration to containers<\/span><\/td>\n—<\/span><\/td>\n.NET Framework<\/span><\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Containers \u201cgreen-field\u201d<\/span><\/td>\n.NET Core<\/span><\/b><\/td>\n.NET Core<\/span><\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ASP.NET Core<\/span><\/td>\n.NET Core<\/span><\/b><\/td>\n.NET Core<\/b> recommended <\/span><\/p>\n

.NET Framework is possible<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

ASP.NET 4 (MVC 5, Web API 2)<\/span><\/td>\n—<\/span><\/td>\n.NET Framework<\/span><\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
SignalR services<\/span><\/td>\n.NET Core<\/b> in upcoming releases<\/span><\/td>\n.NET Framework<\/b> <\/span><\/p>\n

.NET Core<\/b> in upcoming releases<\/b><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

WCF, WF and other traditional frameworks<\/span><\/td>\n—<\/span><\/td>\n.NET Framework<\/span><\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Consumption of Azure services<\/span><\/td>\n.NET Core <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

(Eventually all Azure services will provide Client SDKs for .NET Core)<\/span><\/td>\n

.NET Framework<\/b> <\/span><\/p>\n

.NET Core<\/b> <\/span><\/p>\n

(Eventually all Azure services will provide Client SDKs for .NET Core)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

And here\u2019s a written summary about it:<\/span><\/p>\n

You should use .NET Core for your containerized Docker server application when:\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 You have cross-platform needs. You want to use Linux containers and Windows containers.\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Your application architecture is based on microservices.\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 You need best-in-class high performance and hyper-scale.<\/span><\/p>\n

You should use .NET Framework for your containerized Docker server application when:\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Your application currently uses .NET Framework and has strong dependencies on Windows\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 You need to use third-party .NET libraries or NuGet packages not available for .NET Core.\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 You need to use .NET technologies that are not available for .NET Core.\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 You need to use a platform that doesn\u2019t support .NET Core. <\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m writing further details about this subject in a separate and longer document, but I thought it would be good to share this summary table with the community and get some feedback. Please, post your feedback here in the blog post or send me direct feedback to cesardl at microsoft.com<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The short answer is: \u201cFor Docker containers, use .NET Core whenever is possible\u201d. But, below is a summary decision table depending on your architecture or application type and the server operating system you are targeting for your Docker containers. Take into account that if you are targeting Linux containers you will need Linux based Docker […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":12806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8,10,21,38,43],"class_list":["post-5915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cesardelatorre","tag-net-core","tag-net-framework","tag-asp-net-core","tag-containers","tag-docker"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

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