Deploying Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates from Azure DevOps is very powerful. It encourages developers and operators to maintain a declarative file describing the infrastructure on Azure. Also helps prevent pesky environment drifts because of someone clicking from the portal...
Sometimes, we want to run a one-time job during our deployments. For example, running an Entity Framework migration. By creating a console application, packaged as a Docker image, we can run these one-time jobs as a Kubernetes Job upon a...
In my last post, I blogged about how to use Artillery to run Load Tests from Azure Container Instances. Artillery is easy to use and Azure Container Instances offer a low cost and easy way to run containerized load tests....
Recently, Microsoft annouced that they’re going to be abandoning support for Visual Studio Cloud-based Load Tests. Creating tests through Visual Studio wasn’t trivial, but it was cloud-based and there was no need to provision dedicated test harnesses. I have found...
With the rise of new virtualization technologies using containers, people are starting to think more and more about using microservices in their organizations. It’s definitely a topic that has been getting a lot of attention. Many of the top technology...