All of the concepts that are outlined in this section are illustrated in the container demonstrations. These demonstrations
are supplied with
Visual COBOL and illustrate how to build a range of images to perform different tasks, from being used as a base image for running
Visual COBOL to debugging a sample
application. See
Container Demonstrations for a list of all of the supplied container demonstrations as well as descriptions of the files in them.
Note: A separate document,
Best Practices for Moving Your COBOL Applications to Containers, is available that describes best practices that
Micro Focus recommends you adopt when moving an existing COBOL application to run in a containerized environment. See
Micro Focus: Best Practices for Moving Your COBOL Applications to Containers for more information.
For more information see:
- Building a Base Image Containing
Visual COBOL Build Tools for Windows for a description of how to create a base image that includes
Visual COBOL.
- Building an Image Containing an Application to
use with
Visual COBOL Build Tools for Windows for a description of how to extend the
Visual COBOL base image with applications of your own that you can run and debug using
Visual COBOL.
- The Container Demonstration for the
Visual COBOL Base Image for a detailed look at the container demonstration files supplied with
Visual COBOL that show how to create a base image for
Visual COBOL Build Tools for Windows.
- The Hello World Container Demonstration for a detailed look at how the container demonstration files supplied with
Visual COBOL extend the
Visual COBOL Build Tools for Windows base image with an application that you can debug, test, or run.