Author: Matt Ruma

Accomplished, hands-on IT leader with extensive experience in developing and implementing high-performance technology solutions. When not fiddling with new technology Matt enjoys spending time with his family, playing board games, coaching basketball for his kids and is active in his church.

Adventures with Cosmos: Delete All Documents

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When testing my Cosmos database I often like to reset the containers, or in other words, delete all the existing documents. Unfortunately, there is no way to do a DELETE * FROM in Cosmos, at least not yet. I know I could create a Console Application or Azure Function to do this, but I was…

Adventures with PowerShell: Add or Update Resource Tags

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Whenever I deploy a release to Azure, using Azure DevOps, I like to add or update a tag with the current build version. To do this, I created a PowerShell script called UpdateTags.ps1. In full disclosure, transparency, and whatever other buzz words there are now for coming clean, I cobbled this script together from a…

Adventures with Azure DevOps: Assembly Version Validation

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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…