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…]
One of the most exciting features we announced this year at Connect(); was automated release gates for VSTS releases. We’ve always had the ability to add manual approvers before and after every deployment environment. And now, we have the ability to also add automated gates using continuous monitoring. Out of the box, there are 4 … [Read more…]
The League was asked by twitter to show how to build and deploy a web app to multiple on prem IIS Servers and the schema of the database for the web app to an on prem SQL Server. Totally a fair request. All of my demos recently have been using PaaS, Azure SQL and Containers. … [Read more…]
I was creating a new demo for an upcoming event and needed a clean VSTS account, so I started completely from scratch and created a brand new VSTS account. Next, I added my source code, created my build and started creating my release. The first thing I wanted to do was use the Azure App … [Read more…]
I keep forgetting to fix my style cop warnings (mainly the using statements need to be in alphabetical order and trailing whitespace at the end of the line) and @DonovanBrown finally got sick of it and told me to turn our Code Analysis warnings into errors. Simple enough. I flip the switch, fix all my … [Read more…]
Within the last week, 3 different people have asked me how to deploy their database schemas in their CI/CD pipeline using Entity Framework Core Code First. I figured that’s a good sign to write a full blog post! When looking at DevOps best practices, my DB schema should be “checked in” to source control right … [Read more…]
When writing LoECDA.com, we (#LoECDA) wanted to build the site using modern technologies implementing best DevOps practices. LoECDA.com is written using asp.net core, running in a Docker container, connected to a SQL Server database, all hosted in Azure with a full DevOps pipeline implemented in VSTS. Each developer check in can flow into our different … [Read more…]