This is a wonderful post. Thanks for sharing the plugins which are quite useful. I recently started working with Scala and found this post quite helpful. I have been using Docker for quite sometime now. I am doing a series of posts on how to containerize a .Net Core application along with SQL Server 2017 and then deploying it to a full ledge multi-node kubernetes cluster.

Highly scalable multi-container apps using AKS

I also did a hands on series for a Microsoft user group and the complete source code as well as video recordings and slide decks are available in the Github repo

NileshGule/AKS-learning-series

For building Docker images and running them, I found Scaffold very useful. It is similar to continuous test runner which runs in the background and can detect changes to the source control. It automatically builds and deploys the Docker images. You can find an example of that here

Continuous Kubernetes deployments with Skaffold