What you need for this book

This book assumes basic knowledge of PowerShell, C#, .NET, ASP.NET 5, cloud computing, and Azure. The book will help your setup development environment on desktop operating system like Windows 10 (with Anniversary update) and deploying container applications on VMs running on-premise and on Azure. To practice building containerized applications on an on-premise environment like Windows 10, the host machine should have Hyper-V feature enabled. The book shows building virtual environments using Windows 10 built-in feature called Hyper-V but you can try any other desktop virtualization software like VMware or virtual box. The book also uses Visual Studio 2015 for application development, if you have hands-on experience working with Visual Studio 2015 it will easy to execute the samples. Following is the basic hardware configuration for running Hyper-V and Visual Studio 2015:

• CPU: 1.6 GHz or faster processor, 4 cores
• 64-bit processor with Second Level Address Translation (SLAT) – (for Hyper-V only)
• CPU support for VM Monitor Mode Extension (VT-c on Intel CPU's) – (for Hyper-V only)
• Minimum of 8 GB RAM
• Disk space: 80 GB

Apart from the these, you will also need an Azure subscription for creating container environments on Azure. Microsoft offers a free subscription which can be used for 30 days in-case you do not have a paid subscription. The software requirements for the book are as follows:

• Visual Studio 2015 (Community Edition or above)
• Windows 10 with Anniversary update
• SQL Server Management Studio
• Redis Desktop Manager
• Postman

Internet connectivity is required to install any packages for application development, download images (ISO files) for windows server 2016 or source code from GitHub repository.