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VSTS Private Agents with ARM
This post is provided by App Dev Managers, Mariusz Kolodziej and Francis Lacroix who discuss how to automagically deploy a VSTS Private Agent with Azure Resource Manager (ARM) and some PowerShell.My customers love to use VSTS to enable their DevOps capabilities, but in some cases they are not able to use the Hosted Agents due to security restrictions. In that case, the alternative is to use Private Agents. For detailed description on differences between the two configurations checkout this article. In this blog we’ll discuss how to automagically deploy a VSTS Private Agent with Azure Resource Manager (ARM) ...
Riding the Azure Stack opportunity
In this blog post, Premier Developer consultant Rob Vettor talks about Azure Stack opportunities. You are hearing more and more about Azure Stack. As a developer, the release of this long-awaited platform will present new opportunities and place a premium on Azure development skills. A highly ambitious project from Microsoft, Azure Stack brings many features of the Azure cloud platform right into your data center. Read the rest on Rob's blog here.
Docker Blog Series Part 2 – Build & Deploy ASP.NET Core based Docker Container on Service Fabric
This post is the second in a series of posts on Docker that Premier Developer consultant Monu Bambroo has posted on his blog. Azure Service Fabric in addition to offering a Service Fabric programming model is also able to orchestrate container based services across a cluster of machines. Service Fabric can deploy services in container images. In this blog post, we will see how to use Service Fabric as an orchestrator for Windows based Docker images. The images will be published to Docker Hub and consumed by the Service Fabric orchestrator. We will build an ASPNET Core Web application, Dockerize it and publ...
Setting up CI/CD for Docker Container Running in Kubernetes using VSTS
This post is provided by Senior Consultant, Najib Zarrari to explain setting up CI/CD for Docker Container running in Kubernetes using VSTS. In my last post, I covered how you can create a simple Web API, run the Web API in a Docker container and then deploy the container to a Kubernetes cluster provisioned using Azure Container Service (ACS) in Azure. You can find the full post here. In this blog, I will cover how CI/CD can be implemented so that the sample Web API can be deployed automatically as soon as a change is made to the Web API code. To create the Web API code with Docker support, follow the secti...
Running Web API using Docker and Kubernetes
This post is provided by Senior Consultant, Najib Zarrari to explain running Web API using Docker and Kubernetes. As companies are continuously seeking ways to become more Agile and embracing DevOps culture and practices, new designs principles have emerged that are more closely aligned with those aspirations. One such a design principle that had gained more popularity and adoption lately is Microservices. By decomposing applications to smaller independent components, companies are able to achieve the following benefits: Read the rest on Najib's blog here.
Tips for Running an Angular app in IIS
Laurie Atkinson, Premier Developer Senior Consultant, A few tweaks are necessary to take an Angular app and move it to IIS. Here is a list of changes required to get everything running smoothly. Using the Angular-CLI to generate an Angular SPA is an excellent way to scaffold out a well-organized application. This tool also includes a production build step that should allow you to xcopy your application to the web server of your choice. We’ll start here and discuss the necessary modifications to successfully run your application in IIS. Use the Angular-CLI to create a production package First decide whet...
Azure Stack Getting started resources
This post is provided by Senior App Dev Manager, Guru Satish Piduru with helpful getting started information for Azure Stack.Azure Stack brings the power of Azure, to your datacenter, transforming your datacenter resources into cloud services for maximum agility, all under the control of IT. For developers, Azure Stack provides a unified app development experience, consistent with Microsoft Azure.The purpose of the blog is to provide a list of resources for those of you looking to learn more about Azure Stack!Azure Stack Documentation: Learn how to use Azure Stack technical preview to deliver Azure services from ...
Azure Enterprise Agreement changes, transfers, and consolidation
This post is provided by Senior App Dev Manager, Bryan Towne to provide insight into to consolidation options for Azure deployments as you grow into or out of your current Enterprise Agreement.Within the time that you consume Azure services there will come a point in which you will probably need to transition from your Enterprise Agreement (EA) and start using for a new one. One of the reasons is that Microsoft has been adopting a new type of agreement for to handle Azure consumption called the “Server and Cloud Enrollment” (SCE). Other ways that an EA change will be necessary is through attrition – either throug...
Creating Azure IoT Edge Custom Modules in C# – send and receive data from IoT Hub
This post is from Premier Developer consultant Mark Taylor. This article assumes a basic understanding of the functionality of Azure IoT Edge. If you don’t have this, start with the official documentation: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/campaigns/iot-edge/. The current Azure IoT Edge samples for .Net are great, but they do not (as of the time of this writing) demonstrate how to hook up and send data to IoTHub. Here we will set out step-by-step instructions for doing this using the existing samples as a starting point. The instructions below show how to send messages to IoTHub using Azure IoT Edge ...