Kubernetes automatically checks if a pod is healthy and also when it is ready to accept traffic. These checks are done using a readiness probe and liveness probe respectively. This post shows how t...

I showed in my last post how to automatically deploy database changes to your database. In this post, I will extend my microservice to use this database and also extend the deployment to provide a ...

Helm is a great tool to deploy your application into Kubernetes. In my post, Helm - Getting Started, I also mentioned the values.yaml file which can be used to replace variables in the Helm chart. ...

Running a performant, resilient application in the pre-cloud era was hard. Especially with unpredictable user traffic, it was often necessary to use more hardware than needed, just to make sure the...

Kubernetes is a great tool but it also has a steep learning curve. Today, I want to talk about how to limit the resources a container can use and how containers can request a minimum of resources o...

I showed in my last post how to use SSDT to create a dacpac package and how to deploy it locally. The SSDT project uses .NET Framework 4.8 which means that it runs only on Windows. Azure DevOps has...

In my last post, I talked about deploying database changes automatically. Today, I will show how to use SSDT (SQS Server Data Tools) to generate a Dacpac package and how to deploy it to your SQL se...

DevOps has been around for some years now and most developers know what it means. In simple terms, it stands for a culture where you automate all your steps from code merges to tests and deployment...

A part of my job as a software consultant is to analyze existing software to find room for improvement to make the software better or to avoid these mistakes if the software is rewritten soon. The ...

YAML pipelines can get quite long and unclear over time. In programming, developers use several files to separate logic to make the code easier to understand. The same is possible using templates i...