Tagged articles - dotnet core

Tagging Docker images is important to keep track of versions of the service running and to easily roll back in case of faulty behavior of the application. The version strategy which is the most clear and understandable is tagging image with version of the application for example ... read more

This is not a new subject and the support for handling WebApi input and output was introduced in .NET Core 2.0 and it's been there since then. There are couple of useful pages out there and it is even well documented on Microsoft official page Custom formatters in ASP.NET Core Web API... read more

With growing popularity of dotnet Core, Git and Docker, developers who used to work mainly on Windows are now getting used to CLI environment and obviously Linux. Windows is still a development environment platform of choice, bit since Microsoft already developed and published Visual Studio Code as a cross platform IDE for Windows, Linux and Mac. Although it is still not mature as Visual Studio 2017, it is a decent tool for .NET Core applications development... read more

Recently I wanted to try to spin up a simple .NET Core application on my local cluster which I built in my previous article Manual setup of Kubernetes cluster on a Virtual Machine with kubeadm. The problem I had is that I needed to test applications in this cluster and deploy them as service in order to monitor potential issues behavior. As deployment of Kubernetes service needs an image to pull from, I decided to use dockerhub to push my test images, but they first needed to be created. ... read more

.NET Core comes with a great feature for loading different config file based on the environment. Environment is picked up from the host environment variables whether that is Windows on Linux based OS... read more

Microsoft introduced a new feature called Global Tool with the new .NET Core release 2.1. Essentially, global tools are simple console applications which can be invoked from the console... read more

Some time ago I wrote about setting up .NET Core service/daemon on Linux. Back than I was using .NET Core 2.0 SDK on both development Windows machine and Linux host machine... read more

In two previous articles (How to setup .NET Core 2 on Debian or Ubuntu Linux distro the easy way & Setting up .NET Core service/daemon on Debian Linux OS) I explained how to setup and run .NET Core based applications and how to run them as a Linux daemon. In this article we are going to take it one step further... read more