Click2Cloud’s Container Extensions for Visual Studio

Container Extensions for Visual Studio; allows Linux Container platform users to Build, Manage and Deploy containerized .NET and lot more other applications straight from Visual Studio 2015 IDE to Linux Container platforms such as RedHat’s OpenShift 3 CaaS. With Docker Tooling, you can also connect, manage containers and images right from Visual Studio IDE.

This is pre-release version of Container Extensions for Visual Studio 2015.

For more details, you can mail us at contact@click2cloud.net or contact at +1 (425) 749-7495 and +1 (425) 748-9666. You can also visit our website www.click2cloud.net to get insight of tools and FAQs .

Watch our YouTube Playlist to see how easy it is to develop and deploy application on OpenShift 3 using Click2Cloud’s RedHat OpenShift Tool for Visual Studio with Docker Tooling for Visual Studio 2015.

Software Pre-requisites

Following are the software pre-requisite to install the Click2Cloud Container Extensions for Visual Studio 2015 tool and manage your application on OpenShift 3.

Hardware Pre-requisite

Processor: Intel Core i3 (or above for better performance)
RAM: Minimum 8 GB (or above for better performance)
Hard disk: 10 GB Minimum

NOTE: Current version of Docker Tool supports connecting with Docker Daemon version 1.10.X or above.

Additional Resources

Along with Click2Cloud OpenShift 3 Video Gallery , you can refer the getting started documentation accessible from New OpenShift Application screen.

The getting started document provide user with step-by-step approach to install and use the tool. It covers the following section;

Pre-Requisites Software’s required to install the plugin
Step-by-step details on installing GitHub Extension for Visual Studio 2015
Guidelines to Install Git for Windows and OpenShift 3 CLI
Procedure to download OpenShift Tool for Visual Studio 2015
How to Install and Activate OpenShift Tool for Visual Studio
Create Your First Application on OpenShift and Manging Projects
Deploying Application Changes and Build
Log Streaming and Stream Application Logs
Stream Build Logs
Open Terminals and Port-forwarding

The Getting started document is also available on Click2Cloud website, and can be directly accessed from here .

Guideline to enable .NET in OpenShift 3 Environment

Follow instructions at https://github.com/Click2Cloud/DotNetOnOpenShift3 to enable .NET on OpenShift 3 Environment.

Features

Support to login to OpenShift 3 using basic and oauth protocol
Create and manage projects in OpenShift 3
Create new OpenShift application from server template
Support to create new OpenShift application from custom template
Support to open existing application from OpenShift 3 and load in Visual Studio 2015
View WebHook URL for newly created application as well as retrieve it for already running application
View Pod and build Logs from OpenShift Explorer
Start Build from OpenShift Explorer
Port Forwarding from OpenShift Explorer
Launch Terminal option from OpenShift Explorer
JSON Editor Integration with OpenShift Explorer

Docker Tooling Feature

Support to connect to local or remote docker daemon
Visualize your connections, containers and images in a single treeview
Manage Docker Registries and account
Search and Pull images from docker registry
Run Docker Image wizard, to run any Docker image as a container
Deploy to OpenShift wizard, to deploy any image to OpenShift 3 cloud
Build image from Dockerfile

Click2Cloud Container Extensions for Visual Studio

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