diff --git a/src/services/dotnetcore/.gitignore b/src/services/dotnetcore/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cbbd0b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/services/dotnetcore/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bin/
+obj/
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/services/dotnetcore/Dockerfile b/src/services/dotnetcore/Dockerfile
index baf6b8b..c88dec3 100644
--- a/src/services/dotnetcore/Dockerfile
+++ b/src/services/dotnetcore/Dockerfile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-FROM mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/core/sdk:3.1@sha256:150d074697d1cda38a0c2185fe43895d84b5745841e9d15c5adba29604a6e4cb AS build-env
+FROM mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/sdk:9.0@sha256:ae000be75dac94fc40e00f0eee903289e985995cc06dac3937469254ce5b60b6 AS build-env
 WORKDIR /app
 
 # Copy csproj and restore as distinct layers
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ COPY . ./
 RUN dotnet publish -c Release -o out
 
 # Build runtime image
-FROM mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/core/aspnet:3.1@sha256:e3b773f30a0a6e88d71ce52429f6847627fc9353e491346902ca345760b82bdd
+FROM mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/aspnet:9.0@sha256:515c08e27cf8d933af442f0e1b6c92cc728acb71f113ca529f56c79cb597adb5
 
 LABEL org.opencontainers.image.source=https://github.com/cisco-open/app-simulator
 LABEL org.opencontainers.image.description="dotnetcore service for app-simulator"
diff --git a/src/services/dotnetcore/dotnetcore.csproj b/src/services/dotnetcore/dotnetcore.csproj
index 3e2f25f..354bf06 100644
--- a/src/services/dotnetcore/dotnetcore.csproj
+++ b/src/services/dotnetcore/dotnetcore.csproj
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Web">
 
   <PropertyGroup>
-    <TargetFramework>netcoreapp3.1</TargetFramework>
+    <TargetFramework>net9.0</TargetFramework>
   </PropertyGroup>
 
   <ItemGroup>
diff --git a/src/services/dotnetcore/run.sh b/src/services/dotnetcore/run.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..ae7132d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/services/dotnetcore/run.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+env APP_CONFIG="$(<../../../examples/backend.json)" dotnet run