Running Universal Dashboard in IIS, in a Docker Container.

Here is a quick demo on how to run a Universal Dashboard IIS Site inside a Docker container.

Components

Dockerfile

• I use mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/framework/aspnet as my starting image.
  The tag depends on what host you are building, in my case it was a Windows Server 2016, so I used 4.8-windowsservercore-ltsc2016
• After selecting the Image, we only need to ensure that Nuget is installed and download Universal Dashboard PowerShell Module.

Dashboard.ps1

Just a minimal starter dashboard for demo purposes.

dockerbuild.ps1

A small script that ties everything together:

• Builds Image
• Runs container
• Performs a simple smoke test (webrequest)

Demo

Get the source code from here

1. Navigate to /ud-docker directory
2. Run dockerbuild.ps
Use the -WindowsVersion parameter to get the correct image tag with 2016(default) or 2019

• A fresh Windows-IIS Image is built, with Universal Dashboard installed
• A container is spun up with a random port
• A test webrequest is run on the fresh container

💰 if you have a license for the Enterprise version, uncomment the copy license line in the Dockerfile, and replace UniversalDashboard.Community with UniversalDashboard