Deploying Containers with Common Configuration

You may well be aware of technology such as Helm and the creation of Helm Charts to manage applications on Kubernetes. It’s a great solution if you want your container to be consumed by the general public, but what if you want a reusable YAML file to deploy your services internally. We can easily have a template YAML file stored in a Git repository as part of Azure DevOps that can be used in our release pipelines and change placeholders based on variables set in our pipeline....

21 January 2022 · 2 min · Martyn

Auto-Scaling .NET Core Web API Containers

In this post, we take a look at how to make sure you .NET Core Web API containers work well in auto-scalaing scenarios on Azure Kubernetes Service. When you first access a newly released .NET Core Web API, even locally, does not have to be in a container, you will notice the first request is slow. You can see this with the following output, it’s just from a brand new scaffolded project using the ....

20 October 2021 · 3 min · Martyn