Randy Patterson

Bypassing authentication for the local Kubernetes Cluster Dashboard

Developer Support March 28, 2019 Mar 28, 2019 03/28/19

It’s no secret that you can run a local version of Kubernetes on Docker Desktop for Windows, however, getting the Dashboard installed and configured correctly can be challenging. The problem is that the default installation requires you to manage an admin user and copy that user's bearer token into the portal to login.

Mixing Windows and Linux containers with Docker Compose

Developer Support March 21, 2019 Mar 21, 2019 03/21/19

Running Linux containers on a Windows host has been available for awhile now. However, getting Windows and Linux containers to communicate without Docker Compose results in using the containers’ IP Addresses. This is not a good solution since container IP Addresses change often.

IIS Remote Management for Docker Containers

Developer Support February 26, 2019 Feb 26, 2019 02/26/19

When running IIS in a Windows Container, you configure it using PowerShell commands in your Dockerfile. While determining the correct PowerShell commands is not a difficult process it is inconvenient to verify the settings using the command line only. Sometimes, you just need a UI to quickly view and manage your IIS configuration.

Setting up .NET Core Configuration Providers

Developer Support April 26, 2018 Apr 26, 2018 04/26/18

ASP Core uses the convenient Provider Pattern to load configuration key/value pairs from various sources and expose those to you as a single Configuration object. This allows you to grab a configuration key like ConnectionString with one line of code regardless of where it was sourced from. However, the configuration API is not available by default in .NET Core Console applications.

Running Docker Windows and Linux Containers Simultaneously

Developer Support April 20, 2018 Apr 20, 2018 04/20/18

Many of you with familiarity with Docker for Windows know how you currently have to switch between running either Windows or Linux Containers. In the following post, Premier Developer Consultant Randy Patterson teaches us how to combat this limitation and run Docker Windows and Linux Containers simultaneously on the same host. Starting ...

Order of Precedence when Configuring ASP.NET Core

Developer Support April 15, 2018 Apr 15, 2018 04/15/18

In this post, Premier Developer Consultant Randy Patterson introduces the new configuration API for ASP.NET Core and its order of precedence. In previous version of ASP.NET, configuration was primarily handled by the ConfigurationManager class. This class typically obtained the user configurable settings from the AppSettings section located...

Debugging ASP Core on Linux with Visual Studio 2017

Developer Support November 10, 2017 Nov 10, 2017 11/10/17

NET Core and specifically ASP Core is an Open Source, High Performance implementation of .NET that runs on Windows, Linux and Mac. After you deploy your web application to a Linux server it can be difficult to troubleshoot when issues arise. In this article, I’ll show you how to configure your Linux test server and Development environment to allow remote debugging giving you all the greatness of debugging in Visual Studio while your code is running on a Linux server.

Defining ASP.NET Core Controller action constraint to match the correct action

Developer Support June 5, 2017 Jun 5, 2017 06/5/17

When developing Web Api controllers many times we have situations where we need to define similar arguments in different methods. For example, a controller that has 2 methods that query users either by last name or date of birth. The name of the method is different but they both will receive a single argument of type string. When the routing engine can’t determine which action method it should call, a status code of 500 is returned.

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