Merge pull request #1434 from syncfusion-content/976091-azContainer

976091: Prepare documentation for deploying Web App server as docker images

Author: GokulprasathVenkatachalam

Document-Processing-toc.html

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+							<li>Deployment
+								<ul>
+									<li> <a href="/document-processing/pdf/smart-pdf-viewer/blazor/how-to/dockerImage-hosting-guide">Docker Image Hosting Guide for Blazor Web App</a></li>
+								</ul>
+							</li>
 							<li><a href="/document-processing/pdf/smart-pdf-viewer/blazor/document-summarizer">Document Summarizer</a></li>
 							<li><a href="/document-processing/pdf/smart-pdf-viewer/blazor/smart-redaction">Smart Redaction</a></li>
 							<li><a href="/document-processing/pdf/smart-pdf-viewer/blazor/smart-fill">Smart Fill</a></li>

Document-Processing/PDF/Smart-PDF-Viewer/blazor/how-to/dockerImage-hosting-guide.md

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+---
+layout: post
+title: Docker Image Hosting Guide for Blazor Web App | Syncfusion
+description: Learn here all about creating Docker image from Blazor Smart PDF Viewer Web App and ensure the images locally by hosting it as a link.
+platform: document-processing
+control: SfSmartPdfViewer
+documentation: ug
+---
+
+# Docker Image Hosting Guide for Blazor Web App
+
+We aim to assist developers in reducing deployment time and simplifying the publishing process using Docker images. The [Syncfusion Document Processing API](https://hub.docker.com/r/syncfusion/document-processing-apis) is available as a ready-to-use Docker image for document processing APIs that ensures a seamless experience for Docker users. The following sections will guide you on how to publish docker images.
+
+## Deployment requirement
+### Hardware requirement
+The following hardware requirements are necessary to run document processing API
+
+Windows
+CPU: 2-core
+Memory: 8GB RAM
+Disk space: 8GB or more
+
+### Software requirements
+The following software requirements are necessary to run document processing API
+
+Application: Rancher Desktop.
+Web Browser: Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, and Chrome.
+
+## Steps to configure and run docker container
+### Step1:
+Install the Rancher desktop application [Rancher Desktop](https://github.com/rancher-sandbox/rancher-desktop/releases)
+
+### Step2:
+Open the rancher desktop application Select the displayed option.
+![Docker Moby](../images/docker-moby.png)
+
+### Step3:
+Create a Smart Pdf Viewer web app sample using the following [documentation](https://help.syncfusion.com/document-processing/pdf/smart-pdf-viewer/blazor/getting-started/web-app).
+
+### Step4:
+Right-click Smart PDF Viewer web app sample to add the docker support with Linux.
+![Docker Support](../images/add-docker-support.png).
+
+### Step5:
+Once the docker file is added open the docker file and add the following line
+
+{% tabs %}
+{% highlight c# tabtitle="Dockerfile" hl_lines="2 4 6" %}
+FROM mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/aspnet:9.0 AS base
+RUN ln -s /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl-2.24.so /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so  
+
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --allow-unauthenticated libgdiplus libc6-dev libx11-dev  
+
+RUN ln -s libgdiplus.so gdiplus.dll  
+
+ 
+USER root
+
+
+WORKDIR /app
+
+
+EXPOSE 8080
+EXPOSE 8081
+....
+{% endhighlight %}
+{% endtabs %}
+
+![Docker Support Line](../images/line-to-add-docker.png).
+N> Remove the `User` if not needed or change the User type to  `root` for providing elevated privileges.
+
+### Step6:
+Publish the image by building the DockerFile
+![Build Docker File](../images/build-docker.png).
+
+### Step7:
+Open the comment prompt or power shell and enter the following command to list the published docker images.
+
+{% tabs %}
+{% highlight c# tabtitle="Docker Image" %}
+
+docker image ls
+
+{% endhighlight %}
+{% endtabs %}
+
+### Step8:
+To check the published images locally, run the below command which is in the format docker run -d -p 6001:{exposed Port} {Image ID}.
+
+{% tabs %}
+{% highlight c# tabtitle="Docker Run" %}
+
+docker run -d -p 6001:8080 4eead1aaf7a5 
+
+{% endhighlight %}
+{% endtabs %}
+
+### Step9:
+Ensure the published image is as per requirement in the hosted link `http://localhost:6001/`
+
+## See also
+
+* [Steps to deploy Docker Images from Container Registry to Azure App Services](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/app-service/quickstart-custom-container?tabs=dotnet&pivots=container-linux-azure-portal).
+