Dotnet Container App

This .NET 6 example application to demonstrate the process of creating a container application. You can choose to publish the application to Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) or Azure RedHat OpenShift (ARO).

This is the application architecture diagram

The project is divided as follows:

• src/ContainerApp.IAC: Bicep files for create Azure environment
• src/ContainerApp.TodoApi: TODO API to communicate with SQL Server database
• src/ContainerApp.WeatherApi: WEATHER API simulates weather forecasts
• src/ContainerApp.WebApp: Web Application interact with rest TODO API and
• src/ContainerApp.Test: Unit Testing project

This sample application can use the following Azure features:

• Azure Container Registry (ACR) ACR allows you to build, store, and manage container images and artifacts in a private registry for all types of container deployments

• Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) AKS simplifies deploying a managed Kubernetes cluster in Azure by offloading the operational overhead to Azure

• Azure RedHat OpenShift (ARO) Azure Red Hat OpenShift provides highly available, fully managed OpenShift clusters on demand, monitored and operated jointly by Microsoft and Red Hat. Kubernetes is at the core of Red Hat OpenShift

• SQL Server Database is a relational database-as-a-service (DBaaS) hosted in Azure that falls into the industry category of Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS).

• Azure Monitor helps you maximize the availability and performance of your applications and services. It delivers a comprehensive solution for collecting, analyzing, and acting on telemetry from your cloud and on-premises environments.

• Azure Key Vault is a cloud service for securely storing and accessing secrets. A secret is anything that you want to tightly control access to, such as API keys, passwords, certificates, or cryptographic keys.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Dotnet 6
• Visual Studio Code
• Azure Account

Quickstart

Follow the steps below to run the application locally

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/Azure-Samples/dotnet-container-app.git

# switch to repository directory
cd dotnet-container-app

# Open Visual Studio Code
code .

You will need to configure the Connection String in file /src/aspnetcorewebapi/appsettings.json

Connection String example: *Data Source=(LocalDb)\\MSSQLLocalDB;Initial Catalog=TodoItem_DB;Integrated Security=SSPI;*

To run the application in debug mode, select the Debug menu and select the aspnetcorewebapi & aspnetcorewebapp option as shown in the image below

Another option to run application based on docker containers. In the root directory of the application we have the DockerCompose.yml file with all the necessary configurations to running the application using containers. To start run the command below.

docker-compose -f 'DockerCompose.yml' up --build -d

Publishing the application

Now you can choose to publish the application to Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) or Azure RedHat OpenShift (ARO).

Connect GitHub and Azure Cloud

First step is create a Service Principal identity to GitHub connect to Azure Subscription

# Login Azure
az login

# Get subscription ID
$subscriptionID = $(az account show --query id -o tsv)

# Create Service Principal
az ad sp create-for-rbac --name <Service Principal Name> --role contributor --scopes /subscriptions/$subscriptionID --sdk-auth 

The command should output a JSON object similar to this:

{
  "clientId": "<GUID>",
  "clientSecret": "<PASSWORD>",
  "subscriptionId": "<GUID>",
  "tenantId": "<GUID>",
  "activeDirectoryEndpointUrl": "<URL>",
  "resourceManagerEndpointUrl": "<URL>",
  "activeDirectoryGraphResourceId": "<URL>",
  "sqlManagementEndpointUrl": "<URL>",
  "galleryEndpointUrl": "<URL>",
  "managementEndpointUrl": "<URL>"
}

Store the output JSON as the value of a GitHub Actions secret named 'AZURE_CREDENTIALS'

• Under your repository name, click Settings.
• In the Security section of the sidebar, click Secrets and select Actions.
• At the top of the page, click New repository secret
• Provide the secret name as AZURE_CREDENTIALS
• Add the output JSON as secret value
• Click Add secret button.

Create other two secrets

1. Store SQL username 'AZURE_SQL_USERNAME'
2. Store SQL password 'AZURE_SQL_PASSWORD'

Deploy to Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS)

In this section I will show you the steps to publish the application in Azure Kubernetes Services. To create the environment we are using the concept of Infrastructure as Code (IAC) where we have a bicep file that we declare all the resources we need to create in Azure. You can see this aks.bicep file.

To create the environment, you need to configure the following variables in the workflow aks-aspnetcore-deployment.yml.

• AZ_RG_NAME
• AZ_RG_LOCATION
• AZ_ACR_NAME
• AZ_AKS_NAME
• AZ_SQLSERVER_NAME
• AZ_KV_NAME
• AZ_LOADTEST_NAME

This workflow has the following steps:

• IAC
  • Run the Bicep file to create environment
• Build
  • Check out source code
  • Docker Login to ACR
  • Docker Build and Push to ACR
  • Replace the image URL variables
  • Create kubernetes YML artifact
• Release
  • Download the kubernetes YML artifact
  • Configure the AKS context
  • Deploy the application to AKS

This example using manual trigger, to start the workflow following these steps:

• Under your repository name, click Actions tab.
• In the left sidebar, click the workflow aks-aspnetcore-deployment.
• Above the list of workflow runs, select Run workflow.
• Use the Branch dropdown to select the workflow's main branch, Click Run workflow.

Workflow result

After deployment, below resources will be created in your Azure subscription

After the workflow ends, our application will be available for use.

• Log in Azure Portal
• Select the resource group rg-dotnet-containerapp
• Select the AKS cluster Kubernetes Service Name
• In the Kubernetes resources section of the sidebar, click Services and ingresses
• Check the external IP for the aspnetcorewebapp-svc service

Deploy to Azure RedHat OpenShift (ARO)

In this section I will show you the steps to publish the application in Azure RedHat OpenShift. To publish this application in ARO it is necessary to follow the following manual steps.

# Variables
$RESOURCEGROUP = "rg-dotnetcontainerapp-aro"
$LOCATION = "eastus"
$CLUSTER = "arodotnetcontainerapp"

# Create a resource group.
az group create --name $RESOURCEGROUP --location $LOCATION

# Create Service Principal
az ad sp create-for-rbac --name "sp-$RESOURCEGROUP-$CLUSTER"

# Save the values into variables
$SP_CLIENT_ID = <appId returned from above command >
$SP_CLIENT_SECRET = <password returned from above command>
$SP_OBJECT_ID = $(az ad sp show --id $SP_CLIENT_ID  --query id --output tsv)

# Assign the Contributor role to the new service principal 
az role assignment create --role 'User Access Administrator' --assignee-object-id $SP_OBJECT_ID --resource-group $RESOURCEGROUP --assignee-principal-type 'ServicePrincipal'

az role assignment create --role 'Contributor' --assignee-object-id $SP_OBJECT_ID --resource-group $RESOURCEGROUP --assignee-principal-type 'ServicePrincipal'

# Get the service principal object ID for the OpenShift
$ARO_RP_SP_OBJECT_ID = $(az ad sp list --display-name "Azure Red Hat OpenShift RP" --query [0].id -o tsv)

Now let's create Secrets on GitHub to store these informations

To create the environment we are using this bicep file aro.bicep.

Now you need to configure the following variables in the workflow aro-aspnetcore-deployment.yml.

• AZ_RG_NAME
• AZ_RG_LOCATION
• AZ_ACR_NAME
• AZ_ARO_NAME
• AZ_SQLSERVER_NAME
• AZ_KV_NAME
• AZ_LOADTEST_NAME

This example using manual trigger, to start the workflow following these steps:

• Under your repository name, click Actions tab.
• In the left sidebar, click the workflow aro-aspnetcore.deployment.
• Above the list of workflow runs, select Run workflow.
• Use the Branch dropdown to select the workflow's main branch, Click Run workflow.

Workflow result

After deployment, below resources will be created in your Azure subscription

For you to manage your application in ARO it is necessary to execute the command below to return the URL of the ARO administration portal

# View Console URL
az aro show --name $CLUSTER --resource-group $RESOURCEGROUP --query "consoleProfile.url" -o tsv

# Run the following command to find the password for the kubeadmin
az aro list-credentials --name $CLUSTER --resource-group $RESOURCEGROUP

• Log in ARO Portal with console URL and password
• Select Developer mode
• Select Topology
• Select the containerapp-webapp-deploy
• Check the external IP in the Routes section

Contributing

This project welcomes contributions and suggestions. Most contributions require you to agree to a Contributor License Agreement (CLA) declaring that you have the right to, and actually do, grant us the rights to use your contribution. For details, visit https://cla.opensource.microsoft.com.

When you submit a pull request, a CLA bot will automatically determine whether you need to provide a CLA and decorate the PR appropriately (e.g., status check, comment). Simply follow the instructions provided by the bot. You will only need to do this once across all repos using our CLA.

Found an Issue?

If you find a bug in the source code or a mistake in the documentation, you can help us by submitting an issue to the GitHub Repository. Even better, you can submit a Pull Request with a fix.

Want a Feature?

You can request a new feature by submitting an issue to the GitHub Repository. If you would like to implement a new feature, please submit an issue with a proposal for your work first, to be sure that we can use it.

• Small Features can be crafted and directly submitted as a Pull Request.

For more details Contributing to Dotnet Container App.