AWS App2Container

&gt; App2Container (A2C) currently supports the following application types:<p>&gt; 1) ASP.NET (.NET 3.5+) web applications running in IIS 7.5+ on Windows. A2C packages these applications with Windows containers.<p>Do people actually run Windows containers successfully?<p>Right now I&#x27;m working with get ASP.NET apps into containers, by first getting them ported to ASP.NET Core and then into Linux containers. The decision to skip Windows all-together was made before I joined, but I&#x27;m a nix guy so I don&#x27;t complain.<p>One of the hiccups I&#x27;ve encountered on Linux is the lack of support for Windows Authentication. It gives you AD backed SSO basically for free (as a developer) - you just need one line of config to turn it on and the magic of IIS solves it for you.<p>We moved to ADFS instead, which worked well. But I&#x27;m guessing there are many of these deeply integrated services that make Windows containers attractive.

If you want to containerize a java app check out jib. Really easy to use and integrates well with gradle

I’m not a .net or java user these days but I love the “guess what’s in a repo and try your best” strategy. I’ve been working on “deploy-node-app” for JavaScript applications that does similar: try to scan for dependencies, services, etc and “guess” as much of the Kubernetes configuration as a possible. It’s a fun project! Glad I don’t have to make it support .NET now ;)

Funny this doesn&#x27;t come out of Microsoft.<p>Vaguely relatedly, MS seems to be making another little push into Windows Containers after seemingly forgetting about them. 29 days ago a new Github issue tracker! <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;microsoft&#x2F;Windows-Containers" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;microsoft&#x2F;Windows-Containers</a>

Does this work with .NET Core? As someone writing an ASP.NET Core app for a backend this looks promising.

I know naming products is tough, but aws, are you try to confuse? &quot;App2Container&quot; is so ambiguous that it&#x27;s guaranteed to be misunderstood. Was that a strategy to get more clicks or just reflective of the difficulty in succinct branding strategies?