We recently built an Azure DevOps pipeline which deploys code to a staging slot. This slot has auto-swap enabled to push the app into production automatically after a successul health probe check. However, the issue we ran into, was how to fail the pipeline, when that auto-swap failed — because, frustratingly, it often fails silently, or [...]
Azure DevOps makes it very easy to run unit tests and display code coverage results in your builds, but I noticed, by default, it was also showing test coverage of 3rd party DLLs, in my case, Moq. These DLLs are not being tested in my application, so it brings the code coverage percentage down. I'm going [...]
We're currently using an Application Gateway that sits in front of several of our app services. Some of these app services use Azure Active Directory (AAD) authentication and need to be able to work, encrypted, without the use of custom domains, or TLS certificates installed on the app services. We also want to be able to [...]
Deprecation of Multi-Step Web Tests We have loved using Azure multi-step web tests for quite some time now. It allows us to track the availability of our services, and be notified very quickly in the event of any downtime, alerting our action groups, and texting us in the event of a production outage. Microsoft has announced [...]
You can use a self-signed certificate from your very own certificate authority, for deploying your application gateways and app services, with end-to-end TLS encryption. This approach should only be used for development environments, and not in a production environment. This approach is handy because it will allow you to save a lot of money on TLS [...]
I recently had a requirement, to set up numerous Azure App Services, each in their own app service plan. They were all using a shared custom domain name and one common SSL certificate. Some of the app services had to allow anonymous access, while others had to be secured using Azure AD Authentication. Using an application [...]
I was not able to find a post that succinctly demonstrated this, so I wanted to share my solution here. I was trying to deploy a .NET Core web application with some app settings inside an ARM template. The app settings are contained as an object with nested properties, like so: "AzureStorageConfig":{ "AccountName":"this-is-a-dummy-value", "AccountKey":"this-is-a-dummy-value", "ImageContainer":"this-is-a-dummy-value", [...]
I'm starting to think that Swashbuckle and Swagger UI should be mandatory on all Web API applications going forward. I love this framework so much right now, so I wanted to make a very brief blog post about it. It's saved me so much time and throw away code. Recently I was working on a small [...]
I recently had a new client contact me about an issue with their existing WordPress site. Any changes they made to their pages or posts would not save. WordPress would notify them that everything was updated, but nothing actually happened, no errors logged, no error messages returned. I did my due diligence and reverted to a [...]
I recently had a client transfer their DNSSEC enabled domain to another registrar. Everything appeared to transfer as expected, but they noticed several global users having DNS resolution issues. This was strange because: The domain appeared to resolve fine for 90% of the world, using DNS propagation utilities to determine how DNS was propagating globally. DNSSEC [...]
