Recently, Burke Holland (@burkeholland) and Cecil Phillip (@cecilphillip) released their awesome app The Urlist, a real world serverless app (check it out, it’s cool). After reading Burke’s blog post talking about The Urlist, I came away with 3 conclusions. Very cool app and very cool use of serverless technology Burke’s blogging style is freaking awesome!!! … [Read more…]

Build was ridiculously exciting and fun (although EXHAUSTING for me as I wasn’t really supposed to be there. Was supposed to stay home and “rest”. Doesn’t that sound horrible? Resting???? While BUILD is going on????). We announced all sorts of new and cool stuff around Azure DevOps. Here’s a list of all Azure DevOps related … [Read more…]

I was recently asked how to get the code analysis and code metrics info from visual studio into an Azure Pipeline build. My first thought was, how hard could it be? Sure I’ll write a blog post about it. Lol… turns out, it was a little harder than I expected. Let’s dive in and I’ll … [Read more…]

I’ve always wondered how to get code coverage information for a .net core app in my build pipeline in Azure Pipelines. When I just use the standard .net core template from AzD, I get my test results published but I don’t get any code coverage info. I’ve always known that getting code coverage is possible. … [Read more…]

Today, Robin Kilpatrick (@rakilpatrick) asked The League (#LoECDA) a question on twitter. What is the best way to use Azure Pipelines with microservices? He even posted the question on stack overflow. This is a great question. Microservices makes it super easy to build and release only the part of your application that changed vs the … [Read more…]

Recently, Andreas Grabner (@grabnerandi on twitter) of Dynatrace demoed their Unbreakable Pipeline to me and Donovan. I immediately leaned over to Donovan and said, “Dude, that is sick. We can use Dynatrace for Azure Monitoring and we can totally build Dynatrace’s Unbreakable Pipeline using VSTS and Azure!”. Then I really started geeking out. “We can … [Read more…]

Recently, Donovan asked me to work with Dynatrace getting their unbreakable pipeline working with VSTS and Azure. The concept is like this:  Use Dynatrace to monitor your environments and protect your pipeline with the monitoring.  With Dynatrace you can define exactly what you want to monitor as well as the thresholds for what you are … [Read more…]

Table Of Content Part 1: Intro to containers, Kubernetes and DevOps Part 2: Getting started (setting up my dev environment) Part 3: My first app –  .net core, vscode, WSL, containerize and deploy to local k8s AND debug it while running in k8s??? GTFOH Part 4: Deploy to k8s in the cloud (Azure Kubernetes Service … [Read more…]

Table Of Content Part 1: Intro to containers, Kubernetes and DevOps Part 2: Getting started (setting up my dev environment) Part 3: My first app –  .net core, vscode, WSL, containerize and deploy to local k8s AND debug it while running in k8s??? GTFOH Part 4: Deploy to k8s in the cloud (Azure Kubernetes Service … [Read more…]

Table Of Content Part 1: Intro to containers, Kubernetes and DevOps Part 2: Getting started (setting up my dev environment) Part 3: My first app –  .net core, vscode, WSL, containerize and deploy to local k8s AND debug it while running in k8s??? GTFOH Part 4: Deploy to k8s in the cloud (Azure Kubernetes Service … [Read more…]