ASP .NET Core docker container warmup and liveness probes

Use a readiness probe to warmup your docker container and check the health of your container with a health probe

When running your ASP.NET core container/application you probably noticed that the first requests take longer on average. The cause of the longer request can be normal application loading and/or logic you have written that must initialize on your first call. It would be nice to warm up your container before a customer call is handled by your container. Kubernetes gives you the possibility to use a readiness probe to check and warm up your application.

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How many workers in a Docker cluster

This post will explain to you how to optimize your worker size when you need a failover scenario for container failure or worker failure.

Recently we have created a k8s cluster to host our Microservices architecture. In this blog post, I like to share how we calculated the number of worker machines we needed and which considerations are to take into account.

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