Working with Docker tasks

For cloud-native applications, you need to use Docker commands to build and deploy cloud-native applications. There are many predefined tasks for building cloud-native applications in an Azure pipeline. You can perform the following steps to create a pipeline using Docker tasks:

1. Follow steps 1 to 4 as described in the previous section for .NET Core CLI tasks.
2. Rename the file for the Docker pipeline:

Figure 5.14 – Renaming the file

3. Select the Docker CLI installer task, click on Add, and update DockerInstaller@0:

   - task: DockerInstaller@0
     inputs:
       dockerVersion: '17.09.0-ce'

   The following screenshot shows you how to add a Docker CLI installer task and fill in the details on this task:

Figure 5.15 – Adding a Docker CLI installer task

4. Select the Docker task and click on Add, and you will see the following code. This...