Oct 05, 2018
Last week we saw how we could install and run an ASP NET Core application in a container, we saw how Visual Studio uses docker-compose to setup our services. Today we will see how we can use compose to setup a cluster composed by an ASP NET Core application container with a SQL Server container and how we can place in a third party process.
Sep 28, 2018
Few weeks ago we saw how we could run ASP NET Core application on Ubuntu. This proving that a .NET Core Application can run on a Linux system, today we will be taking it a step further and see how we can deploy our application in a Docker Linux container.
Sep 21, 2018
Last week we saw a flow to manage versioning and releases. As a continuation of last week, today I will show how we can setup versioning and releases for open source projects by configuring Appveyor and using FAKE to setup a build script.
Sep 14, 2018
Few weeks ago I explained how Gitversion can be used to apply semantic versioning to projects based on commit and tag history. Today I will dive deeper in the purpose of versioning and introduce a flow which can be followed to version open source project libraries by looking into four important parts in the lifecycle of an open source library.
Sep 07, 2018
Few weeks ago I explained [how to use the new HttpClientFactory. This freed ourselves from managing the confusing lifecycle of a HttpClient and at the same time allowed us to setup commmon options like base address for all HttpClient injections in our classes. Today we will see how we can setup timeout and retry policies for the HttpClient in in ASP NET Core using Polly.
Aug 31, 2018
Few weeks ago we saw how we could Setup continious integration and deployment to deploy an application using Gitlab Pipeline. We configured a service with systemd and had an ASP NET Core application automatically deployed when code was pushed to the repository. This automation allows us to reduce interaction with the server and reducing the manual work. The “infrastructure” configurations like systemd service files and nginx site files must also be created or edited on the server therefore it makes sense to also have them automatically deployed. On top of that, it makes even more sense to have them save in repository and source controlled. Today we will see how we can leverage Gitlab Pipeline to setup a continuous deployment for our infrastructure files.
Aug 24, 2018
In previous blog posts, we saw how to proxy requests to an ASP NET Core application using Nginx. We saw that request headers also can be proxied with proxy_set_header In order to ease development, we need to be able to debug the values to verify that they are what we expect.
Today we will see two methods to inspect the proxied requests.
Aug 17, 2018
Last week I encountered an issue with MSBuild while trying to run it from command line.
The issue did not appear when using VisualStudio right click + build but only appeared when using msbuild.exe CLI directly with a clean project.
Aug 10, 2018
ASP NET Core 2.1 brings a set a enhacements for Web API development, Web API being a service accessible via HTTP and returning result in Json format. Those enhancements aim to simplify the composition of those APIs and also remove unecessary functionalities. Today we will explore those enhancements.
Aug 03, 2018
Frontend libraries progress very rapidly. After just one month, a project can see all its packages needing an upgrade. Today we will see how we can figure which packages need to be updated and how to do it.
Jul 27, 2018
Last week we saw how to configure SignalR and get a server notifying a client built as Razor page via Websockets. We completed the post by having a fully functional backend setup with SignalR and authentication done via Resource Owner Password. Today we will see how we can connect to SignalR hub from an Angular application and demonstrate how we can authenticate.
Jul 24, 2018
Managing configurations can be challenging. We cannot simply check-in in our repository secrets and connection strings and at the same time we want an easy way to maintain them. Today we will see how we can manage secrets is am easy way on Ubuntu with systemd.
Jul 22, 2018
When proxying a request to an underlying server, it is necessary to validate its SSL certificate. For example, if we have a process running on https://localhost:5001, we can configure Nginx to validate the certificate used by localhost:5001. But if we miss one step, we face the common error 502 Bad Gateway returned by Nginx. Today we will see two scenarios where we can face the error and how to fix them.
Jul 20, 2018
Internet is moving toward secure connections whereby HTTPS is a priority. Browsers are now warning users when navigating to non secured website. With this movement, Kestrel and ASPNET Core have adopted the mentality of security by default rather than security when needed. HTTPS will now be the default and HTTP will be a necessity due to implementation constraints. Together with Lets Encrypt and ACME protocol, we do not have excuses for not implementing an SSL connection.
Jul 16, 2018
ASP.NET Core 2.1 ships with a factory for HttpClient called HttpclientFactory. This factory allows us to no longer care about the lifecycle of the HttpClient by leaving it to the framework. Today we will see few ways of instantiating clients.
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