devops

A 2-post collection

Using Azure DevOps Pipelines and NuKeeper to Automate NuGet Package updates

Keeping your code update to with the latest references can at times be a challenge with the rate of speed third-party dependencies can revise. However, with security patches and bug fixes constantly plaguing us it is a necessary exercise. I have been using dotnet-outdated to quickly run checks on my projects and it has even been a huge help when getting some non-descript error messages in my code realizing I was missing a recent update. Looking at a way to extend this functionality or automate it, I came across Nukeeper and a write up from Scott Hanselman that mentioned that this one had a Repository Feature where running the command nukeeper repo <myrepo> would do the similar functions...


Learning DevOps, building the ASP.NET Core Workshop, and keeping it up to date

DevOps is the union of people, process, and products to enable continuous delivery of value to our end users. – Donovan Brown Build Status BackEnd Web API FrontEnd Razor Page App How often have you gone to a GitHub repo and found that the sample code is not up to date with the latest SDK, or doesn't even build? Over the last couple of weeks, I have jumped into updating (again) the ASP.NET Core Workshop the team uses for 1 and 2-day sessions at various conferences to .NET Core 2.1. However, as a part of that, we wanted to make sure that any future changes were checked and didn't just work on my machine. The workshop has a lot...