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In my previous post, I showed how to take a WCF service and containerize it using Visual Studio. By doing so, this gives us the opportunity to push our heritage (aka legacy) application to the cloud either in Azure App Service using Web App for Containers, Azure Container Instances (ACI), or in the event we need something like an orchestrator Kubernetes is available in AKS. Many times we would like to use the new technology with the old. For instance, creating a .NET Core Razor Pages application or .NET Core Web API to consume the WCF application. However, the new applications will be using Linux containers and everything must be scalable and run in a Kubernetes cluster. Let's see how...

There are a number of reasons for moving long-standing .NET Framework applications like WCF, and ASP.NET Webforms to containers and then into containers or "modernizing legacy heritage apps". DevOps - Once the application is set up in a container, build a CI/CD pipeline to build and push the applications to the cloud in a streamlined fashion. Velocity - In addition to the CI/CD features, the ability to version the container, ease of deployment and rollback in the event of failures is easier. Leverage other cloud services - Add Application Insights or logging, managed database services, and other PAAS offerings.  Where to start Visual Studio 2019 has the Docker tooling built into the workloads. You will need to...

All related links: https://www.theurlist.com/autobloggerpost Jekyll is a very popular way to host a static site on GitHub and posting new content is a simple as creating a markdown file and then committing it to the relative repo. GitHub takes care of the rest. See the help pages at GitHub -> Setting up your GitHub Pages site locally with Jekyll This seemed like a great way for me to get started on a blog for some content that was being stored in a CMS. The view we are interested in is updated once a week and is accessible via .NET Standard API. There are a few options for making this happen. I could write a console application...

The Docker extension for VS Code was recently updated to better support .NET Core applications and the experience is super nice! The extension already has great support for building your containers, pushing images to Docker Hub, Azure Container Registry and tasks such as running a specific image or tagging an image too. However, adding a Dockerfile to an ASP.NET Core application was not updated to support the microsoft/dotnet base images. The Docker extension can be downloaded separately or is also available as a part of the Azure extension pack for VS Code which provides a number of other extensions for working with the many cloud services without leaving the editor. First, I'll start by creating a quick Razor...

There has probably been more than one time in your development career where you've spent a few hours troubleshooting an issue only to find out it was a dependency or versions issue right? Environments varying from one to next, outdated components and setting up development machines are frustrations we can all do without. Some of these issues we've solved with VMs, but managing the entire machine and underutilizing them for each environment is costly. This is where containers have come to solve many challenges. Why Containers It's no doubt that you have heard the buzz about containers over the last year or longer. If not containers, then some technology, framework, or tooling associated with it; Docker, Kubernetes, microservices are just...