Table of contents:

1. Create .NET Core application
2. Building the Docker image
3. Host the container on AWS EC2

In this article, I am going to show how to build a Docker image out of the ASP.NET Core Web API application and host its container in AWS EC2 instance. For this tutorial you are going to need the following requirements:

• Visual Studio Code
• .NET Core SDK (I am using version .NET 5.0)
• Docker Desktop
• Docker Hub account
• AWS account

Create .NET Core application

First things first open your VS Code editor. Toggle your terminal with ‘Ctrl+`'. Check if you have .NET …