Time to set up your database for your new .net core application. Stick to what you know. For most of us coming from a corporate environment we know SQL Server. But it is better to avoid SQL Server for personal projects because the license fees are so high.

In my earlier post about hosting an ASP.NET core application in docker for production use I fudged a little bit in terms of what it means to production-worthy. Using the dotnet run command starts the web application on the Kestral web server. Kestral is a fine web server for development and maybe production use in an intranet environment but should not be exposed to the internet in a production environment.

I’m becoming a fan of Docker. In fact, every new web application I build will be deployed in a docker container. For so many reasons - such as consistency, portability, and resource efficiency (you can read about all those reasons on the internet).