Deploying a .NET Core 2.1 Azure linux function
Here’s a very basic yaml pipeline that deploys a C# .NET Core 2.1 function created with Visual Studio Code via Azure DevOps.
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Azure
Eliminating build servers with Azure Container Registry
Currently I use an Azure Linux Webapp with a custom container to host one of my web apps. The build & release process looks like this:
commit code to the master branch of a github repository CI build in VSTS builds docker image & pushes it to Docker Hub CD release in VSTS updates the container image for the Web App in Azure When I saw this tweet I knew that this process could be simplified:
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Azure SQL Databases & Azure AD Authentication in Client Apps
It’s not uncommon that you encounter older desktop applications that communicate directly with a SQL server and use windows integrated authentication to secure access to a database.
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Will Azure App Services updates break my apps?
During a web app migration project our customer had questions about breaking changes introduced by Microsoft during maintenance of the Azure App Service infrastructure. The pleasant thing about Platform as a Service is, that you don’t have to worry about the underlying operating system and its components. But Azure still runs on servers that must be patched so this is a valid concern.
A quick search on google produced a forum post by Cristhian Uribe that confirmed my initial assumption: Microsoft will not update the platform (i.
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