Locking Helm Releases to Prevent Upgrades (and Downgrades)
It’s great having a single ‘Up’ pipeline for your apps which deploys the whole stack, creating whatever resources it needs and ensuring the deployment matche...
Tracing External Processes with Akka.NET and OpenTelemetry: Part 2 (Running the Demo)
In the last post I introduced a client project where I’m using OpenTelemetry and Akka.NET to collect traces for processes running in an external system. I’ve...
Tracing External Processes with Akka.NET and OpenTelemetry: Part 1 (The Code)
Distributed tracing is one of the most useful observability tools you can add to your products. Digging into the steps of some process to see what happened a...
You can’t always have Kubernetes: running containers in Azure VM Scale Sets
Rule number 1 for running containers in production: don’t run them on individual Docker servers. You want reliability, scale and automated upgrades and for t...
Experimenting with .NET 5 and 6 using Docker containers
The .NET team publish Docker images for every release of the .NET SDK and runtime. Running .NET in containers is a great way to experiment with a new release...