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Deploying Your Dockerized Angular Application To Azure Using VSTS (Part II)

Premier Developer Consultant Wael Kdouh demonstrates how to maintain consistency across development and production environments by utilizing Docker containers. He will show you how this is possible while concurrently automating the process with VSTS. In my previous post, I showed you how to deploy your Angular application to Azure using...

Setting up CI/CD targeting Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes Using VSTS

In this post, Premier Developer Consultant Najib Zarrari demonstrates how to deploy a containerized ASP.NET Core Web API app into an OpenShift Kubernetes cluster.The first part of this blog will go over how to create a sample ASP.NET Core web application with Docker support. We will use this as our demo app to deploy to the Kubernetes cluster...

Docker Blog Series Part 5 – Understanding new container management features in Service Fabric

In the latest post in his Docker series, Premier Developer consultant Monu Bambroo talks about some of the new features in Service Fabric regarding container management. Service Fabric is a distributed systems platform that makes it easy to package, deploy, and manage scalable and reliable microservices and containers. Service Fabric ...

Creating Developer’s Docker Linux Virtual Machine on Azure

This post on creating Linux virtual machines with Docker in Azure comes to us from Premier Developer consultant Razi Rais.For an upcoming developer event on Docker I had to create handful of Linux Ubuntu virtual machines on Azure with Docker and few additional software installed on it.I looked into couple of ways to to do that on Azure in a ...

Docker Blog Series Part 4 – Managing Secrets inside Kubernetes Cluster in Azure Container Service

This post is the next in a series of Docker posts from Premier Developer consultant Monu Bambroo.  In this post, Monu walks through setting up a Web API to leverage Kubernetes for managing secrets. One of the common tasks in application development is to manage configurations. Some of the configurations can be sensitive information. ...

Jump Start ASP.NET Core Application on Nano Server

This post is provided by Senior App Dev Manager, Linkai Yu who shares some tips to speed up ASP.NET Core Application dev on Nano Server.With the Nano server release from Windows 2016 Server, I’m excited to see the new application deployment practice to work with the thin and fast OS.If you are new to ASP.NET Core application deployment on ...

Docker Blog Series Part 3– Deploy IIS based applications to Service Fabric using Docker Containers

In the third post in his blog series on Docker, Premier Developer consultant Monu Bambroo illustrates how to deploy IIS based applications to Service Fabric using containers. One of  the value propositions of using containers with Service Fabric is that you can now deploy IIS based applications to the SF cluster. In this blog post, we ...

Microsoft .NET Architecture Guidance

This post is provided by Senior ADM, Brian Swiger, who shares several helpful .NET Architectural Guidance e-books and samples.(image) Four application architecture guidance drafts are available from Microsoft's Developer Division and the Visual Studio product teams.  These drafts cover four areas: Microservices and Docker, ASP.NET Web ...

Enabling Drive Sharing with Docker for Windows

In this blog post, Premier Developer consultant Wael Kdouh shows how to enable drive sharing with Docker for Windows. During Build 2017 the Asp.Net team shared with the world some cool features that Visual Studio 2017 has to offer in terms of Docker support. Naturally I was excited to start coding and trying some of these new features...

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 ...