azure-cli

I've been spending quite a lot of time using Azure over the last many years. In fact, the portal was written in Silverlight. Now the the portal has a great modern UI and complimenting that is a CLI (command line interface) allowing for great automation, grep, awk, jamespath and much more. Checkout Getting Started with Azure CLI 2.0 When using the CLI to create resources there are occasions, usually when putting together a project or demo, when there are parameters that should be assumed or defaulted. In this scenario, the following resources must be created for the application architecture. Resource Group AppService Plan AppService Web Application DocumentDB Creating a Resource Group using the CLI is simple using the following...

When sitting down to get started on a project, the start and stops of setting this and that up can be a non-starter. Sometimes, ok almost always, I just want check in code and have the build and deploy just happen. I'm a very big fan of CLI tooling. If I can fire up a bash prompt and get started, you've won me over. The .NET Core team continues to improve the command line tooling experience for all platforms with dotnet new and if you're pushing your apps to the cloud; the Azure 2.0 CLI is on point for getting stuff done. Azure CLI - The Azure CLI 2.0 is Azure's new command line experience for managing Azure...

Visual Studio 2017 has been released and the features are great for Windows developers. However along with it comes .NET Core 1.0 tooling and large improvements to the command line experience for macOS and Linux users developing ASP.NET Core applications. One of the prevalent features shown off in VS 2017 is the Docker support and capabilities to push to Azure App Service. Using the Azure CLI 2.0, Docker and .NET CLI these same capabilities can be accomplished without friction and with just as much success and satisfaction. dotnet new The new command now is driven by a whole new template system. A number of new templates, including webapi, are available with the ability to install and create...