The password of a Service Principal configured in Azure DevOps in a Service Connection is a secret and hidden. But it’s fairly easy to get the password of a Service Principal in Azure DevOps. It’s not a security bug or a backdoor. It’s a side effect and by design. It looks like leaving the keys in the keyhole. This blogpost tells you how to get the password. As soon as you can use Service Principal credentials, it’s possible to connect to Azure from any laptop, you don’t have to be using a laptop in the same domain as the company. An additional advantage is that you can use the tools you love and that make you productive.
.NET Core
Automatic notification of the latest AKS version in Azure with an Azure Logic app and an Azure Function
New releases of Kubernetes follow each other in rapid succession. Azure must support the version of Kubernetes in order to also offer it with AKS.
I would like to know when a new version of Kubernetes will be supported in AKS. This can be checked manually with the Azure CLI. However, I do not want to do this manually every now and then. That’s why I automated the process that checks the latest version of Kubernetes in AKS. The process tweets a message when a new version has been released. In addition, the process also notifies via twitter when a new location in Azure supports AKS. The proces is automated by serverless resources in Azure: with an Azure Function and an Azure Logic app. The twitter account @azureaksupdates notifies about the latest version and latest locations of AKS.
Handling settings and Environment Variables of your .NET Core 2 application hosted in a Docker container during development and on Kubernetes (Helm to the resque)
You have developed a microservice in .NET Core 2 and want to host it as a Docker Container in Kubernetes. Your Microservice contains settings, some appsettings or connectionstrings for example. These settings differ over environments. You can treat this configuration for Kubernetes on different ways. This blogposts shows you how to handle settings over environments prepared for Continuous Delivery.
Logging to Azure Application Insights from .NET Core 2 running in a Docker Container (or Azure webapp)
Logging in .NET Core 2 is made really easy.
There is a generic logger implementation which logs to the Console and to Application Insights by default. You only have to configure the instrumentationkey like this:
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Pascal Naber 