Adventures with Azure DevOps: Assembly Version Validation

Posted on by Matt Ruma

I have a .NET 5 Web Api that I deploy using classic pipeline in Azure DevOps. When my Web Api is published I want to confirm that the correct version was really deployed, sometimes things happen where the deployment is successful but for some reason the older assembly might not be overwritten. In my Web…

Adventures with Bicep: Cosmos Connection Strings

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I have been playing around with Azure Bicep for deploying my infrastructure to Azure. If you are new to Bicep, please take a look at Azure/bicep: Bicep is a declarative language for describing and deploying Azure resources (github.com). My challenge? I want to write Cosmos connection strings to Azure Key Vault. I am using Bicep…

Adventures in Azure: Naming Conventions

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Instance Identifier – Numerical representation of the instance, sometimes I have one instance in eastus region and another in westus region, again, I use a two digit number, e.g. 01 or 02. Sub Resource Identifier – The name of the resource that is associated to the parent resource, e.g. app insights or storage account instance,…

Adventures in Apis: Grouping Controllers in Swagger

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I like a one to one mapping between my controllers and actions, e.g. I have a controller to add an entity, delete an entity, and so on. I wired up Swagger support for my .NET Core API per Adding Swagger to ASP.NET Core 3.1 Web API (coderjony.com). When I view the Swagger documentation in the…