If you have followed this series then you have learned what microservices are, how to program and deploy them, and how to monitor your Kubernetes cluster and applications. The last missing puzzle p...
Create Grafana Dashboards with Prometheus Metrics
In my last post, I added the Prometheus client library to my .NET microservices. This was the first step to implement monitoring of the microservices which are running in a Kubernetes cluster. In ...
Monitor .NET Microservices in Kubernetes with Prometheus
Knowledge is power is a famous saying which also holds true when running software. You would like to know how many errors occur, how long the response times of your services are, and also how many ...
Collect and Query your Kubernetes Cluster Logs with Grafana Loki
So far I have talked about the development, deployment, and configuration of microservices and Kubernetes in this series. Over the next couple of posts, I want to talk about an essential topic when...
Debug Microservices running inside a Kubernetes Cluster with Bridge to Kubernetes
Kubernetes and new tools and technologies, in general, are great to build new products and applications. An important aspect of using them is how easy it is to find and fix problems. Tracing and de...
Fixing NuGet.targets(131,5) error The local source doesn't exist.
Today, I was trying to add a new NuGet package to my .NET 5 project and I got the following error message: C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\5.0.301\NuGet.targets(131,5): error : The local source ‘C:\Use...
Use Infrastructure as Code to deploy your Infrastructure with Azure DevOps
Back in the day developers had to go through a lengthy process to get new hardware deployed. Often it took several weeks and then there was still something missing or the wrong version of the neede...
Deploy every Pull Request into a dedicated Namespace in Kubernetes
Kubernetes enables developers to deploy quickly into test and production environments. Following the principles of DevOps of deploying fast and often, we should not stop there. Rather DevOps should...
Deploy Microservices to multiple Environments using Azure DevOps
A nice feature of Kubernetes is that you can easily set up new environments like test, QA, or production. Especially when you already have a CD pipeline, it is easy to extend it and deploy it to ad...
Split up the CI/CD Pipeline into two Pipelines
Modern DevOps is all about delivering high-quality features in a safe and fast way. So far, I am using a single pipeline for all of my CI/CD. This works fine but also makes it harder to make change...