I have been spending a considerable amount of time in .Net 8 lately. In addition to some POC work, I have been transitioning some of my personal projects to .Net 8. While the details of that work will be the topic of a future post (or posts), Microsoft’s chiseled containers are worth a quick note.
In November, Microsoft released .NET Chiseled Containers into GA. These containers are slimmed-down versions of the .NET Linux containers, focused on getting a “bare bones” container that can be used as a base for a variety of containers.
If you are building containers from Microsoft’s .NET container images, chiseled containers are worth a look!
A Quick Note on Globalization
I tried moving two of my containers to the 8.0-jammy-chiseled base image. The fronted, with no database connection, worked fine. However, the API with the database connection ran into a globalization issue.
Apparently, Microsoft.Data.SqlClient requires a few OS libraries that are not part of chiseled. Specifically the International Components for Unicode (ICU) is not included, by default, in the chiseled image. Ubuntu-rocks demonstrates how it can be added, but, for now, I am leaving that image as the standard 8.0-jammy image.
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