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 [...]
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 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", [...]