Running a performant, resilient application in the pre-cloud era was hard. Especially with unpredictable user traffic, it was often necessary to use more hardware than needed, just to make sure the...
Manage Resources in Kubernetes
Kubernetes is a great tool but it also has a steep learning curve. Today, I want to talk about how to limit the resources a container can use and how containers can request a minimum of resources o...
Automatically Deploy your Database with Dacpac Packages using Linux and Azure DevOps
I showed in my last post how to use SSDT to create a dacpac package and how to deploy it locally. The SSDT project uses .NET Framework 4.8 which means that it runs only on Windows. Azure DevOps has...
Automatically deploy Database Changes with SSDT
In my last post, I talked about deploying database changes automatically. Today, I will show how to use SSDT (SQS Server Data Tools) to generate a Dacpac package and how to deploy it to your SQL se...
Automate Database Deployments
DevOps has been around for some years now and most developers know what it means. In simple terms, it stands for a culture where you automate all your steps from code merges to tests and deployment...
Analyze Software Architecture with NDepend
A part of my job as a software consultant is to analyze existing software to find room for improvement to make the software better or to avoid these mistakes if the software is rewritten soon. The ...
Improve Azure DevOps YAML Pipelines with Templates
YAML pipelines can get quite long and unclear over time. In programming, developers use several files to separate logic to make the code easier to understand. The same is possible using templates i...
Deploy to Azure Kubernetes Service using Azure DevOps YAML Pipelines
Microservices are becoming more and more popular these days. These microservices run most of the time in Kubernetes. A goal we want to achieve with microservices is a quick and reliable deployment....
Approvals for YAML Pipelines in Azure DevOps
DevOps is all about automation and making the process faster and more reliable. Sometimes a human must check a change or feature before it is deployed. This could be someone from QA or even marketi...
Publish NuGet Packages to Nuget.org using Azure DevOps Pipelines
In my last posts, I published my NuGet package to a private NuGet feed. This is a good solution if you want to use your NuGet packages only internally. If you want to share them, you need a public ...