A few days ago I came across a situation where we wanted to execute our CI pipeline locally. This article details the steps to run GitHub actions locally using nektos/act and Docker-in-Docker(dind). Why even bother? While running your CI pipeline may not seem so essential, it is definitely helpful for various reasons. The two very valid reasons listed by nektos/act are: Fast Feedback – Rather than...
Read moreIntroduction For the last few months, I have been working with Docker extensively. In this article and the one that follows, I want to share the most used Docker commands that every Docker user must know. Originally, the intent was to have a single list of all the commands. However, I felt like each command must have a basic description and I must talk about...
Read moreA registry is a stateless, highly scalable server side application that stores and lets you distribute Docker images. At a high level, a registry is a collection of different repositories which contain our images. These images have different tags.
Read moreThis is the final part in the series of articles about building an ASP .Net Core Web Application and deploying it as a Docker container using Microsoft Azure. Here, we are going to setup a Microsoft Azure DevOps release pipeline to automate the deployment of our application as a container on Azure Web App Service.
In this article we are going to setup a Microsoft Azure DevOps build pipeline to automate the tasks we did manually in first article of the series. Each time we push a change to the master branch, the build will be triggered to build our application, then build a Docker image and push it to Docker Hub.
This article is the first in the series where we are going to build a simple ASP .Net Core web application, containerize it with Docker and run it on local host. And we will push everything to GitHub for later use.In later posts, we will setup Microsoft Azure DevOps Build pipeline to automate the process of building and pushing the Docker image to Docker Hub. Next, we will use Azure DevOps Release pipeline to deploy our application on Azure Web App Service as a container.
Every single programming language has got its own syntax or structure; it’s own flavor and that’s what makes it standout. Go is no different. It’s easy and elegant in its own way, making to it fun to play with. In this article we will be talking about: Go program structure running a Go program comments in Go what about semicolons? revisiting the code Go Read more…
I have been working with Go (also known as Golang) for sometime now, and I must tell you that the more I work with it, the more I like it. And that’s the inspiration to set me on this path of sharing my learning about Go. That said, here is what we will be talking about in this article: Introduction to Go Environment setup Hello, Read more…
