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Adventures with Cosmos: Delete All Documents

Posted on April 2, 2021April 2, 2021 by Matt Ruma

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 Bicep: How to Create an App Service for Containers

Posted on March 27, 2021March 27, 2021 by Matt Ruma

I wanted to create the following Azure resources: Azure Container Registry App Service Plan App Service The App Service would need to support Linux containers. I have been doing a lot with Bicep, with the following bicep file as my first attempt: When I ran my script the first time, it wasn’t setup for containers,…

Adventures with PowerShell: Add or Update Resource Tags

Posted on January 21, 2021January 21, 2021 by Matt Ruma

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: Connect to Azure Database for MySQL

Posted on December 17, 2020December 17, 2020 by Matt Ruma

I have been doing a lot around Azure DevOps as of late, and started dipping my toe into the CI/CD for databases, thought of calling it DataOps, but that doesn’t look like the correct term. Anyway, in my Azure DevOps pipeline I wanted to run a few tasks against an Azure Database for MySQL, e.g….

Adventures with Azure DevOps: Assembly Version Validation

Posted on December 3, 2020December 4, 2020 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…

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