Last week I visited Docker con 2017 where Docker announced a whole lot of new features, under which a new feature in the docker build command, called multi staged builds.
These multi staged builds are extremely convenient to create images that are of minimum size. I am mostly using Docker on Windows, but this feature works on any version of Docker. When using Windows images, you might have noticed they are pretty large in size. Making your image as small as possible makes a big difference. So I will show you, based on the example I have used multiple times, how to create an optimized image to run an existing ASP.NET MVC 4.x on Windows Server Core.