It is November again which means that Microsoft released a new version of .NET. This year, Microsoft released with .NET 6 a long-term support (LTS) version, and guarantees support for .NET 6 for 3 ...
Automatically set Azure Service Bus Queue Connection Strings during the Deployment
In a previous post, I showed how to add the connection string of an Azure Service Bus Queue to your application using Azure DevOps pipelines. This was done using variables. The solution works, but ...
Implement AAD Authentication to access Azure SQL Databases
Microsoft promotes going passwordless for a while now. Azure offers authentication against the Azure Active Directory where applications can acquire access tokens using their identity. Another use ...
Use AAD Authentication for Pods running in AKS
Since the dawn of time, authentication has been a problem for developers and security engineers. Weak passwords make it easy for attackers to get access to areas where they don’t belong. Even if yo...
Automatically scale your AKS Cluster
If you followed this series, you have learned how to scale your applications using the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) or KEDA, Kubernetes Event-driven Autoscaling. Both approaches can automaticall...
Update DNS Records in an Azure DevOps Pipeline
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is a great process to manage the creation of your infrastructure. In an earlier post, I have created such a pipeline using Azure CLI to create all my resources in Azure...
Create Custom Roles for Azure DevOps in Azure
By default, the Azure DevOps service principal that is used to run a CI/CD pipeline with Azure resources gets the Contributor role assigned. This role can create new services but sometimes the Azur...
Deploy KEDA and an Autoscaler using Azure DevOps Pipelines
In my last post, KEDA - Kubernetes Event-driven Autoscaling, I showed how to deploy a KEDA scaler to scale a microservice depending on the queue length of an Azure Service Bus Queue. The deployment...
KEDA - Kubernetes Event-driven Autoscaling
Autoscaling is one of my favorite features of Kubernetes. So far we have discussed the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) which can scale pods based on CPU or RAM usage. This is a nice start but espec...
Unit Testing .NET 5 Console Applications with Dependency Injection
In my last post, I created a .NET 5 console application and configured dependency injection. This was pretty straight-forward and only needed a couple of lines of code. Today, I will show you how ...